lookahead (English, noun)
expansion: lookahead (countable and uncountable, plural lookaheads)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software-compilation
glosses: The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
tags: countable
uncountable
qualifier: regular expressions
glosses: The analysis of the subsequent characters before the regular expression is matched.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: lookaheads
tags: plural