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look⋅up

[look-uhp]
–noun
an act or instance of looking something up, as information in a reference book or an on-line database.
Also, look-up.


Origin:
1945–50 for an earlier sense; n. use of v. phrase look up
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look·up   (lŏŏk'ŭp')   
n.  A procedure in which a table of values stored in a computer is searched until a specified value is found.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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