pagination
noun /ˌpædʒɪˈneɪʃn/
/ˌpædʒɪˈneɪʃn/
[uncountable] (specialist)- the process of giving a page number to each page of a book; the page numbers givenWord Originmid 19th cent.: noun of action from paginate, from French paginer, based on Latin pagina ‘a page’, from pangere ‘fasten’.