pan out

v 1: be a success [syn: {work out}]

2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals

[syn: {pan}, {pan off}]

page out

What a {paging} system does when it copies

part of a {task}'s working memory from {RAM} to {swap space}

on disk.

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(1995-01-23)