lookup
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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 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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