polling

English

Verb

polling

1. present participle and gerund of poll

Noun

polling (countable and uncountable, plural pollings)

1. The action of taking a poll.
2. (computing) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer.
3. (politics, uncountable) the process of voting in an election.

Derived terms

• long polling
• polling
• polling booth
• polling day
• polling place
• polling station
• push polling

 

Translations

action of taking a poll

• Finnish: äänestäminen (fi) (voting), kysely (fi) (opinion survey)
• Irish: vótaíocht f
• Polish: ankietyzacja f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анкетирање n

  Roman: anketiranje (sh) n

technique of interrogating a peripheral device

• Finnish: kiertokysely