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lookup

lookup \look"up\ n. (Computers) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; as, they wrote a program to do a table lookup.

Syn: search.

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lookup

n. An attempt to retrieve data.

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lookup

n. 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" [syn: search]

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Usage examples of "lookup".

A simple lookup table, one or more triplets of nucleotides to each amino acid, is universal for all life.

Only the results of the lookup table itself can explain why he was hooked on breaking it, on getting to the name of experimental desire.

If that were the extent of inheritance, the lookup table would produce only tautological definitions.

Solving the lookup tableitself arbitraryis prerequisite for my locating the particle of purpose, the smallest programmed machine in that regress of programmable machines making up living tissue.

After a quarter century he was back, pitting himself against the lookup table.

I own his mailbox, the lookup table to the one spot where he can be reached.

The code is not the gene, nor the enzymes, nor the lookup table, although these are the core of what the code knows.

Another spot on this bilinguist holds the amino acid called for in the lookup table.

May air, Ressler understands that this work, the lookup tablethat rung of the hierarchy linking the life principle with slavish molecular mechanicswill, the minute it is published, be turned to further work, extrapolated, taken farther afield than he can now guess.

The reverse-number lookup has gotten easy these days, thanks to the Internet.

Linemen told each other frontier stories, pioneer tales, of ghosts in the net, strange codes or secret trapdoors leading to fantastically detailed alien virtualities, odd conversations with disembodied people with no lookup addresses.

Kelly keyed in the Web address for the New York Stock Exchange, got the home page, and in the Symbol Lookup window entered Drp and clicked the Quick Quote button.

At a guess, Lews was doing a lookup on snowball in some sort of reference system.