lookup has definitions from the field of computer science
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[ noun ] (computer science) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

Synonyms

search

Examples

"they wrote a program to do a table lookup"

Used in print

(Hugh Kelly and Ted Ziehe, "Glossary Lookup Made Easy"...)

A more detailed description of dictionary operations - text lookup and dictionary modification - give a clearer picture .

Text lookup , as we will describe it , consists_of three steps .

This initiates the second step of glossary lookup - connecting the information cell of forms in the text form list to dictionary forms .

These two steps essentially complete the lookup operation .

The first stage of translation after glossary lookup is structural analysis of the input text .

Related terms

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