paging

v. call, summon (e.g. to the telephone); number pages, number sheets of paper in a collection; look through the pages of something

This article is about computer virtual memory. For the wireless communication devices, see pager and radio paging. Bank switching is also sometimes referred to as paging.In computer operating systems that have their main memory divided into pages, a paging, sometimes called swapping, is a transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as hard disk drive. Paging is an important part of virtual memory implemention in most contemporary general-purpose operating systems, allowing to easily use disk storage for data that do not fit into physical RAM. Paging is usually implemented as a task built into the kernel of the operating system.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

Noun
1. calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system); "the public address system in the hospital was used for paging"
(hypernym) utterance, vocalization
(derivation) page
2. the system of numbering pages
(synonym) pagination, folio, page number
(hypernym) number
(part-holonym) page
(derivation) foliate, paginate, page

Noun
1. one side of one leaf (of a book or magasine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
(hypernym) leaf, folio
(hyponym) full page
(substance-meronym) paper
(part-meronym) pagination, folio, page number, paging
(derivation) foliate, paginate
2. a boy who is employed to run errands
(synonym) pageboy
(hypernym) messenger boy, errand boy
3. a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
(hypernym) attendant, attender, tender
4. in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
(synonym) varlet
(hypernym) attendant, attender, tender
Verb
1. call out somebody's name over a P.A. system
(hypernym) summon
(derivation) beeper, pager
2. work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer"
(hypernym) work
3. number the pages of a book or manuscript
(synonym) foliate, paginate
(hypernym) number

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Page
  

(n.)
The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.
  

A one-way communications service from a base station to mobile or fixed receivers that provide signaling or information transfer by such means as tone, tone-voice, tactile, optical readout, etc. [47CFR]