lookup (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *lookup*:
NOUN	process	lookup, search	an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

lookup > pronunciation
Sounds	luh'kahp
Rhymes	archbishop ... worship: 69 rhymes with ahp...

English > *lookup*: 1 sense > noun 1, process
Meaning	An operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property.
Example	"they wrote a program to do a table lookup"
Synonym	search
Broader	operation	(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
Spanish	búsqueda
Catalan	recerca

HyperDic: lookup