Definitions for polling
polling

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1. pollingnoun

   the action of taking a poll

2. pollingnoun

   A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral device to see if it has data to transfer

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1. Polling

   of Poll

2. Pollingnoun

   the act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges

3. Pollingnoun

   plunder, or extortion

4. Pollingnoun

   the act of voting, or of registering a vote

5. Etymology: [See Poll the head.]

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1. 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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1. 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  

How to pronounce polling?

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How to say polling in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of polling in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of polling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of polling in a Sentence

1. Jacob Parakilas:

   While this will certainly be observed with interest by American pollsters and political observers, there are a lot of fundamental differences between the political systems in the two countries and the polling that has evolved, the direct impact might be limited in the U.S.

2. Erica Long:

   We never miss an election, we like to go to our polling place and see our neighbors. It feels sort of festive.

3. Fred Smoller:

   The polling is telling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that the American people don't care for President Donald Trump, but, boy, they do not want a socialist on the Democratic ticket, if you do get too far to the left, the Democrats could shoot themselves in the foot.

4. Joey Roberts:

   Me walking into a polling location openly carrying my pistol is not intimidating anybody.

5. Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill:

   You can see from the polling numbers that have come out this week how that has certainly reassured and solidified Claire McCaskill support among Democrats across the country, i think this will push Claire McCaskill even further in that direction.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Polling
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polling
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=polling