LOOKUP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

Example:

they wrote a program to do a table lookup

Synonyms:

lookup; search

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("lookup" is a kind of...):

operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))

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