Associations to the word «Lookup»

Wiktionary

LOOKUP, noun. An attempt to retrieve data.
LOOKUP TABLE, noun. (computing) A data structure created for the purpose of translating keys into values.

Dictionary definition

LOOKUP, noun. An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats