paging

Other forms: pagings

Definitions of paging
  1. noun
    calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system)
    “the public address system in the hospital was used for paging”
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    type of:
    utterance, vocalization
    the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
  2. noun
    the system of numbering pages
    synonyms: folio, page number, pagination
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    type of:
    number
    a concept of quantity involving zero and units
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