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paging out

paging out is the present participle and gerund of page out.

Meaning of page out

Verb

page out (third-person singular simple present pages out, present participle paging out, simple past and past participle paged out)

  1. (transitive) To transfer (memory contents) to auxiliary storage.
    • However, if the ASE application is paged out because of memory starvation, the entire process is blocked and no useful work can be done until the required pages are brought into memory.2002, Allan N. Packer, Configuring and Tuning Databases on the Solaris Platform, page 362
    Synonyms:
    outpage, swap out

Questions about paging out

What is paging out the present participle and gerund of?
Paging out is the present participle and gerund of page out.

Words near paging out in the dictionary

  1. paging
  2. paging down
  3. paging file
  4. paging files
  5. paging in
  6. paging out
  7. paging up
  8. pagings
  9. pagis
  10. Pagkakaisa
  11. Paglat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paging out (page history and authors); page out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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