paginate
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin paginare, from Latin pagina.
Pronunciation
- enPR: păj'ən-āt, IPA(key): /ˈpæd͡ʒəneɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb
paginate (third-person singular simple present paginates, present participle paginating, simple past and past participle paginated)
- (transitive) To number the pages of (a book or other document); to foliate.
- 2022 January 26, Barry Doe, “Fabrik offers an end to hard times”, in RAIL, number 949, page 38:
- 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.
- (transitive) To divide (a continuous stream of text) into pages.
- 2016, Jefferson D. Pooley, Eric W. Rothenbuhler, editor, The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, volume 4, page 943:
- 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 difficult.
- (transitive, computing) To separate (data) into batches, so that it can be retrieved with a number of smaller requests.
Related terms
Translations
to number the pages of a book or other document
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References
- “paginate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Italian
Verb
paginate
- inflection of paginare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Anagrams
Latin
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