Associations to the word «Lookup»

Wiktionary

LOOKUP, noun. An attempt to retrieve data.
LOOKUP TABLE, noun. (computing) A data structure created for the purpose of translating keys into values.

Dictionary definition

LOOKUP, 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".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King