Linux - What is the difference between Swapping and Paging?

What is the difference between Swapping and Paging?

Swapping performs the whole process to transfer to the disk, where as paging performs the part of the process is transferred to the disk by making the rest of the process available in the physical memory.

Page-ins and page-outs are the processors those are moved from and to the physical memory to the disk in paging.

Swap-ins and swap-outs are the processes those are moved from and to the physical memory to the disk in swapping.
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