lookup

/ˈlʊkˌʌp/
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Definitions of lookup
  1. noun
    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: search
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    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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