paging
/ˈpeɪdʒɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of page; calling someone or sending a message to them via a pager or public address system.
- They are paging all passengers to gate 12.
- The nurse is paging the doctor for an emergency.
- I was paging my friend in the crowd.
noun
- The act of calling someone by name or sending a message to them, especially using a pager or a public address system.
- Paging is still used in some restaurants to notify customers when their table is ready.
- The airport uses paging to find lost passengers.
- The doctor received a paging alert from the hospital.
- In computing, a method of memory management that divides memory into fixed-size blocks called pages.
- The system slowed down due to excessive paging between RAM and the hard drive.
- Paging allows the operating system to use virtual memory efficiently.
- Understanding paging is important for optimizing computer performance.