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lookaheads

lookaheads is the plural of lookahead.

Meaning of lookahead

Noun

lookahead (countable and uncountable, plural lookaheads)

  1. The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
    • Our computer chess program uses lookahead to avoid difficult endgames.
  2. (regular expressions) The analysis of the subsequent characters before the regular expression is matched.

Phrases with lookaheads

Questions about lookaheads

What is lookaheads the plural of?
Lookaheads is the plural of lookahead.

Words near lookaheads in the dictionary

  1. lookability
  2. lookable
  3. lookahead
  4. lookahead time
  5. lookahead times
  6. lookaheads
  7. lookalike
  8. lookalikes
  9. lookaround
  10. lookarounds
  11. lookaside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lookaheads (page history and authors); lookahead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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