polling

See also: Polling

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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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

  Latin: anketiranje (sh) n

technique of interrogating a peripheral device

• Finnish: kiertokysely