page up

verb, noun — 2 senses

page up

verbalso spelled Page Up

Etymology From the Page Up key on a keyboard that performs this function.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To scroll up to the previous page of content.

  • When I paged up or down, the text would sometimes get mangled and duplicated.
Synonyms
scroll up, scroll down

Page Up

noun
1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A keyboard key that when pressed scrolls up to the previous page of content.

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