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lookup

loo·kup

UK/ˈlʊkˌʌp/ US/ˈlʊkʌp/ fairly common

noun

1.

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”
Synonyms

Origin

Deverbal from look up.

Phrases

  • look up
  • lookup table

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