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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun lookup has 1 sense

lookup(n = noun.process) search - 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"

is a kind of operation

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CIDE DICTIONARY

lookup, n.

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. [WordNet 1.5]

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