Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A procedure in which a table of values stored in a computer is searched until a specified value is found.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Computers) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An attempt to
retrieve data .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb seek information from
- noun an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
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Examples
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But, on the off chance that the name lookup fails, we will be covered.
Site Home Adam W. Saxton 2011
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You can see the full list by clicking to SRI International's report here and scrolling down to the table listed under "domain lookup prevention."
How to diagnose and defeat the dangerous Conficker worm 2009
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The electronic case lookup is an innovation of Probate Judge Merri Rudd and her staff, allowing the public access to docket information on all cases filed between 1978 and now.
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Based on the way she parses book titles, does a keyword lookup and filters the results based on her own prejudices, I don't think she'd even pass the Turing test.
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How to navigate within the content using the interface viewing table of contents, using search tools, finding a citation, using title lookup
April 2009 2009
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Is there a way to limit the tag lookup to ichc only?
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It sounds like they got a phone list by a name lookup, but they have incomplete names.
Mr. Phelps: Please e-mail Lisa B. 2006
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It is fantastic for displaying exactly what is happening when you are doing a name lookup to DNS.
Netvouz - new bookmarks jecogite 2010
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Samba access works, but the name lookup (DNS) is not aware of the new hostname.
TWiki.Codev 2009
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Samba access works, but the name lookup (DNS) is not aware of the new hostname.
TWiki.Codev 2009
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