pagination

American  

[paj-uh-ney-shuhn] / ˌpædʒ əˈneɪ ʃən /

noun

1. Bibliography. the number of pages or leaves of a book, manuscript, etc., identified in bibliographical description or cataloging.

2. the figures by which pages are marked to indicate their sequence.

3. the act of paginating.

4. Printing.

   1. Also called computer-assisted makeup.  a method of computerized page makeup in which copy and graphic elements are manipulated with the aid of a video display terminal.

   2. composition.

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Other Word Forms

• mispagination noun
• repagination noun

Etymology

Origin of pagination

1835–45; < Latin pāgin(a) page ¹ + -ation

Example Sentences

They thumb through pages to make sure the ink density is proper, that the color is in registration, the margins are set, pagination perfect, date accurate.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2024

Mr. Wong, who initially studied engineering in college and described himself as “kind of a techie,” helped install new pagination systems early in his journalism career.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022

Duncan gives a surprisingly vivid explanation of how the two foundations of the contemporary index — alphabetical order and pagination — themselves had to be invented.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2022

As a matter of fact, Women in the World follows very much what I think of as the pagination of a magazine.

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2019

There is also a second title, in Arawack, and neither title page is included in the pagination.

From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Brinton, Daniel Garrison