PAGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paging mean? 

• PAGING (noun)
  The noun PAGING has 2 senses:

1. calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system)

2. the system of numbering pages

  Familiarity information: PAGING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the public address system in the hospital was used for paging

Hypernyms ("paging" is a kind of...):

utterance; vocalization (the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication)

Derivation:

page (contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The system of numbering pages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

folio; page number; pagination; paging

Hypernyms ("paging" is a kind of...):

number (a concept of quantity involving zero and units)

Holonyms ("paging" is a part of...):

page (one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains)

Derivation:

page (number the pages of a book or manuscript)