polling

English

Verb

polling

1. present participle and gerund of poll

Derived terms

• nonpolling
• prepolling
• telepolling

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
• prepolling
• push polling
• telepolling

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