ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Lookaside

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Lookaside is a noun meaning (computing) The technique of searching for something in a precalculated cache before attempting a more time-consuming search elsewhere.

Meaning

(computing) The technique of searching for something in a precalculated cache before attempting a more time-consuming search elsewhere.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include buffer, cache, lookup, miss, readahead, subsearch.

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