paginating

Verb

paginate (third-person singular simple present paginates, present participle paginating, simple past and past participle paginated)

1. (transitive) To number the pages of (a book or other document); to foliate.
   • Each table is now paginated. That makes it straightforward if you wish to print a few pages of a long table by entering the page numbers required into the printer file.2022 January 26, Barry Doe, “Fabrik offers an end to hard times”, in RAIL, number 949, page 38
2. (transitive) To divide (a continuous stream of text) into pages.
   • Word-processing applications are designed to automatically paginate a continuous flow of text, and this require additional capabilities such as page breaks and image-positioning for some control over page layout. However, this makes tasks such as laying out a double- page magazine spread very...2016, Jefferson D. Pooley, Eric W. Rothenbuhler, editor, The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, volume 4, page 943
3. (transitive) To separate (data) into batches, so that it can be retrieved with a number of smaller requests.