Lookup (Noun)
Meaning
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The database performs a lookup to retrieve the customer's information based on their ID number.
- The program uses a lookup to determine the IP address associated with a given domain name.
- The data analyst performed a lookup to identify the sales data for a specific region.
- The lookup operation in the algorithm takes the most significant amount of processing time.
- The application uses a lookup table to map user IDs to their corresponding permissions.