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  

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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. Jocelyn Benson:

   The presence of firearms at the polling place, clerk's office( s), or absent voter counting board may cause disruption, fear, or intimidation for voters, election workers, and others present.

2. Jennifer Agiesta:

   There certainly hasn't been much good news for Biden in any of the recent polling -- his numbers are not in great shape -- but the way that polls are sometimes reported may make it sound a little worse than it actually is, while President Joe Biden has reached new lows recently in several polls, the previous comparison points for some of those polls were a while ago. So while President Joe Biden numbers have certainly dropped since the summer and around Labor Day, it is unclear if they are currently still declining or if they have plateaued.

3. Chuck Todd:

   There was this focus group - and it’s qualitative, not quantitative - where swing voters, Trump-Biden voters seem to buy the idea that Putin would n’t have done this in Trump was president, how does the Democratic Party answer for that ? MSNBC'S CHUCK TODD SHOCKED BY BAD ECONOMIC POLLING, CLAIMS AMERICANS ‘ DO N’T FEEL FIRST WORLD ENOUGH' Todd then went out of his way to vocally reject the notion voters believe about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis.

4. Fox News:

   The race isn’t over in the states we’ve shifted to leaning Democratic, but it’s now clear that Clinton is playing from a position of strength in those states, most worrisome for Trump are the current polling trends in Pennsylvania. No Republican has won Pennsylvania since 1988. But it’s pretty hard to see a path to victory for Trump that doesn’t include a win in the Keystone State.

5. Kennedy Mattes:

   We are in a unique moment where the older generation is counting on young people to step up, by becoming a poll worker, you're aiding in the effort to prevent the closure of polling locations, so that you're giving more people the ability to vote so we can have a government that's more representative of the people of the country.

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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