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

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