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Page Out Vi. [MIT] 1. To Become Unaware Of One's Surroundings Temporarily, Due To Daydreaming Or Preoccupation.
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page out vi.
[MIT] 1. To become unaware of one's
surroundings temporarily, due to daydreaming or preoccupation.
"Can you repeat that? I paged out for a minute." See page in. Compare
swap.
Related:
page out: [MIT] vi. 1. To become unaware of one's surroundings temporarily, due to daydreaming or preoccupation.
Can you repeat that? I paged out for a minute....
page in: [MIT] vi. 1. To become aware of one's surroundings again after having paged out (see {page out}).
Usually confined to the sarcastic comment: "Eric pages in, {film at 11}!...
page in v. [MIT] 1. To become aware of one's surroundings again after having paged out (see page out).
Usually confined to the sarcastic comment: "Eric pages in, film at 11!...
wapped out n. See swap. See also page out.
wap: vt. 1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'), or vice versa (`swap in').
Often refers specifically to the use of disks as `virtual memory'....
wap vt. 1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'), or vice versa (`swap in').
Often refers specifically to the use of disks as `virtual memory'....
wapped in n. See swap. See also page in.
Skinner: Mother doesn't approve of me dating so I need you to keep her busy for a few hours while Edna and I sneak out.
[sneaks out] Bart: Oh, I can't take much more of this....
deep space n. 1. Describes the notional location of any program that has gone off the trolley.
Esp. used of programs that just sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is expected....