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LOOKUP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lookup mean?
• LOOKUP (noun)
The noun LOOKUP has 1 sense:
1. an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
Familiarity information: LOOKUP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
lookup; search
Context example:
they wrote a program to do a table lookup
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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