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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pagination
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although pagination has been excluded, the novel is nevertheless bound in a fixed order.
▪ Our printing forefathers were notoriously careless about their pagination.
▪ Some systems still rely on a batch pagination method while others, like Interleaf, do the whole thing on the fly.
▪ Thus Experience has an undulating, open-ended form, something like a notebook whose pagination has been erased.
▪ Yorick had eschewed such simple guidelines as dates and pagination.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pagination

Pagination \Pag`i*na"tion\ (p[a^]j`[i^]*n[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number.
--Lowndes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pagination

"action of marking page numbers," 1841, probably from French pagination (1835), from Latin pagina (see page (n.1)).

Wiktionary
pagination

n. 1 the act of creating pages for a document, book, etc., or determining when to truncate text on the pages 2 the act of numbering pages for a document, book, etc.

WordNet
pagination

n. the system of numbering pages [syn: folio, page number, paging]

Wikipedia
Pagination

Pagination is the process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages.

Today printed pages are usually produced by outputting an electronic file to a printing device, such as a desktop printer or a modern printing press. These electronic files may for example be Microsoft Word, PDF or QXD files. They will usually already incorporate the instructions for pagination, among other formatting instructions. Pagination encompasses rules and algorithms for deciding where page breaks will fall, which depend partly on cultural considerations about which content belongs on the same page: for example one may try to avoid widows and orphans. Some systems are more sophisticated than others in this respect. Before the rise of information technology (IT), pagination was a manual process: all pagination was decided by a human. Today, most pagination is performed by machines, although humans often override particular decisions (e.g. by inserting a hard page break).

In reference to books produced without a computer, pagination can mean the consecutive page numbering to indicate the proper order of the pages, which was rarely found in documents pre-dating 1500, and only became common practice c. 1550, when it replaced foliation, which numbered only the front sides of folios.

Pagination (disambiguation)

Pagination is the process of dividing information (content) into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages.

Pagination may also refer to:

  • Bekker pagination, a system of reference and organization used in modern editions and translations of Aristotle
  • Kühn pagination, a system of reference and organization used in modern editions and translations of Galen
  • Stephanus pagination, a system of reference and organization used in modern editions and translations of Plato

See also paging in computers.