paging

Meanings

Plural: pagings

Noun

• calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system)
  • "the public address system in the hospital was used for paging"
• the system of numbering pages
• The arrangement of pages in a book or other publication.
• A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as hard disk drive.

Verb

• contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
• work as a page
  • "He is paging in Congress this summer"
• number the pages of a book or manuscript
• present participle and gerund of page

Synonyms

foliate, folio, page, page number, paginate, pagination