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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software-compilation
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The analysis of the subsequent characters before the regular expression is matched.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: regular expressions
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Deverbal from look ahead.
