Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word LOOKUP

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Definitions of LOOKUP

1. An attempt to retrieve data.
2. The process of locating a term in a reference work.
3. Misspelling of look up.

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Examples of Using LOOKUP in a Sentence

• The multiplication and division may be carried out directly, by hand or using a calculator, or indirectly using a lookup table (or chart).
• The license was later changed, however, and some programmers complained that the new license included certain terms that they couldn't accept: if one wanted to access CDDB, one was not allowed to access any other CDDB-like database (such as Freedb), and any programs using a CDDB lookup had to display a CDDB logo while performing the lookup.
• If no value is found, some lookup functions raise an exception, while others return a default value (such as zero, null, or a specific value passed to the constructor).
• The instruction set of the CPU32 core is similar to the 68020 without bitfield instructions, and with a few instructions unique to the CPU32 core, such as table lookup and interpolate instructions, and a low-power stop mode.
• Services try to contact a lookup service (LUS), either by unicast interaction, when it knows the actual location of the lookup service, or by dynamic multicast discovery.
• The film industry, for instance, often uses 3D LUTs (lookup table) to represent a complete color transformation for a specific RGB encoding.
• A distributed hash table (DHT) is a distributed system that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table.
• Emphasis during chip design was on high-precision frequency control, and the SID was originally designed to have 32 independent voices, sharing a common wavetable lookup scheme that would be time multiplexed.
• The game utilizes lookup tables which resolve injuries to specific digits, organs, and bones, and simulates the physics of different attacks, such as bullets with different velocities.
• In computer science, a lookup table (LUT) is an array that replaces runtime computation with a simpler array indexing operation, in a process termed as direct addressing.
• Also, in some software-based audio players and CD rippers that use CD lookup databases such as CDDB, "The World Won't Stop" is tagged as "The World Won't Stop Without You".
• WordWeb 8 includes one-click and keyboard lookup, including Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox without browser plugins.
• In late September 2007, security researchers accused Global Name Registry of harboring hackers by charging fees per WHOIS lookup.
• A common optimization for physically addressed caches is to perform the TLB lookup in parallel with the cache access.
• This sense of delegation as programming language feature making use of the method lookup rules for dispatching so-called self-calls was defined by Lieberman in his 1986 paper "Using Prototypical Objects to Implement Shared Behavior in Object-Oriented Systems".
• The non-linear operations use a keyed lookup table called the T-box, which uses an unkeyed lookup table called the CaveTable.
• This is due to characters being placed in a special order (128 codepoints apart from the Latin letter they sound most similar to), which, however, does not correspond to the alphabetic order in any language that is written in Cyrillic and necessitates the use of lookup tables to perform sorting.
• Scripts are available to add and extend support for: online games, stats, user and channel management, information storage and lookup, greeting channel members, tracking last seen times, botnet management, anti-spam, file serving and distribution (usually via the DCC protocol), IRC services (similar to ChanServ and NickServ), and much more.
• The interpolation data in the lookup tables are constrained by the requirement that continuity of line segments must be preserved, while optimizing for smoothness.
• The Domain Name System (DNS) solved this inefficiency by automating the lookup function with a hierarchical naming system using domain names.

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