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Page (paper)

One individual side of a sheet of paper bound into a printed book or newspaper.

First in use: ancient / pre-modern
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Page (memory)

A fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory allocated and mapped into physical RAM by the memory management unit.

First in use: c. 1962

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Book pages vs. virtual memory.

Which meaning of Page is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Page (paper) came first (ancient / pre-modern). Page (memory) arrived in 1962. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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Original · ancient / pre-modern

Page (paper)

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Duplicate · c. 1962

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