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Lookup

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Noun

1. lookup, search

an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

Example Sentences:
'they wrote a program to do a table lookup'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lookup

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verb (adverb)
1. (transitive)
to discover (something required to be known) by resorting to a work of reference, such as a dictionary
2. (intransitive)
to increase, as in quality or value
things are looking up
3. (intransitive; foll by to)
to have respect (for)
I've always wanted a girlfriend I could look up to
4. (transitive)
to visit or make contact with (a person)
I'll look you up when I'm in town
noun
1. 
the provision of stored data for reference
adjective
2. 
of or relating to look-up
look-up tables

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Lookup

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1. 
to search for in a book of reference, etc.
2.  Informal
to pay a visit to; call on
3.  Informal
to get better; improve

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Lookup

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n.
A procedure in which a table of values stored in a computer is searched until a specified value is found.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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