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Bloom filters

Bloom filters is the plural of Bloom filter.

Meaning of Bloom filter

Noun

Bloom filter (plural Bloom filters)

  1. A space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not.
    • A Bloom filter is a set-like data structure that is highly efficient in its use of space. It supports two operations only: insertion and membership querying.2008, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart, Real World Haskell: Code You Can Believe In, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 581

Questions about Bloom filters

What is Bloom filters the plural of?
Bloom filters is the plural of Bloom filter.

Words near Bloom filters in the dictionary

  1. blooie
  2. blook
  3. blooks
  4. bloom
  5. Bloom filter
  6. Bloom filters
  7. bloom is off the peach
  8. bloom is off the rose
  9. Bloom syndrome
  10. bloom tea
  11. Bloom's syndrome

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