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terms | nongreedy |

As a noun terms

is .

As an adjective nongreedy is

(chiefly|computing) not greedy.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

    • Statistics

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    nongreedy

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (chiefly, computing) Not greedy.
  • * 2000 , Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl
    • In modern versions of Perl, you can force nongreedy , minimal matching by placing a question mark after any quantifier.