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polling
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pollingnoun
the action of taking a poll
pollingnoun
A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral device to see if it has data to transfer
Webster Dictionary
Polling
of Poll
Pollingnoun
the act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges
Pollingnoun
plunder, or extortion
Pollingnoun
the act of voting, or of registering a vote
Etymology: [See Poll the head.]
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Polling
Polling, or polled operation, in computer science, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. Polling is most often used in terms of input/output, and is also referred to as polled I/O or software-driven I/O. Polling is sometimes used synonymously with busy-wait polling. In this situation, when an I/O operation is required, the computer does nothing other than check the status of the I/O device until it is ready, at which point the device is accessed. In other words, the computer waits until the device is ready. Polling also refers to the situation where a device is repeatedly checked for readiness, and if it is not, the computer returns to a different task. Although not as wasteful of CPU cycles as busy waiting, this is generally not as efficient as the alternative to polling, interrupt-driven I/O. In a simple single-purpose system, even busy-wait is perfectly appropriate if no action is possible until the I/O access, but more often than not this was traditionally a consequence of simple hardware or non-multitasking operating systems. Polling is often intimately involved with very low-level hardware. For example, polling a parallel printer port to check whether it is ready for another character involves examining as little as one bit of a byte. That bit represents, at the time of reading, whether a single wire in the printer cable is at low or high voltage. The I/O instruction that reads this byte directly transfers the voltage state of eight real world wires to the eight circuits that make up one byte of a CPU register.
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polling
The number of people voting at an election and their choice.
The polling information was an accurate reflection of the countries choice for a unity government.
Submitted by MaryC on March 12, 2020
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of polling in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of polling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of polling in a Sentence
For some members this probably helps, but there a bunch of us who use this as guidance/suggestions for polling. And then refine a message that is better for our districts, the national leaders can do what they want. My job is to win and come back.
I think this is going to be a tight race, i think what we've seen play out in relation to the Adani mine will have an influence through the election process. Every job counts. When you have potential parties opposed to mining, that will be considered come polling day.
Polling is very expensive, it's a slow process. It's not very flexible.
That gives us the green light to start collecting signatures. However we are going to do some polling because we are not going to move ahead with two initiatives.
I think what the polling shows is that people are not willing to throw out democracy per se. But they sure as hell are going to get rid of the bunch in power.
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