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title: "What are pages in Operating System?"  
description: "What are pages in Operating System?"  
author: "Kalin"  
published: 2022-04-04  
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# What are pages in Operating System?

What are pages in Operating System?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

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- **A page**, also known as a memory page or virtual page, is a continuous block of virtual memory with a defined length that is described by a single entry in the page table. In a virtual memory operating system, it is the smallest unit of data for memory management.
- A page frame is the smallest fixed-length contiguous unit of physical memory into which the operating system maps memory pages.
- Paging or swapping is the process of moving pages from main memory to an auxiliary store, such as a hard disc drive.
- Paging is a memory management technique that avoids the requirement for contiguous physical memory allocation.

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