D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

lookup

· look·up · IPA /lˈʊkəp/
01 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.
  1. 1.
    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.(Computers)
Syn. search.