page out
C1 neutral separable transitive
In simple words
Move data from your computer's fast memory to its slower storage to make room.
Literal meaning: To move a page (of data) out — transparent in computing context.
Meanings
1 C1 neutral
(Computing, technical) To move data from main memory (RAM) to secondary storage (e.g. a swap file on disk) when memory is needed for other processes.
"Under heavy load, the system started to page out processes to disk, causing noticeable slowdowns."
Grammar: separable
Usage notes
Primarily a technical computing term used in operating systems and systems programming contexts. Rarely encountered outside of IT and computer science. The opposite operation is 'page in'.
Commonly used with
memory data process pages RAM cache
Forms
Base
page out
I/you/we/they
3rd person
pages out
he/she/it
Past simple
paged out
yesterday
Past participle
paged out
have + pp
-ing form
paging out
continuous
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