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terms | pointerlike |

As a noun terms

is .

As an adjective pointerlike is

like a pointer (needle-like indicator).

terms

English

Noun

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    pointerlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a pointer (needle-like indicator).
  • * 1953 , De Witt Wallace, Lila Bell Wallace, The Reader's Digest
    • Twins in many respects, each tube has a light-sensitive screen and a pointerlike beam of electrons.
  • Like a pointer (hunting dog).
  • * 1980 , Academic American Encyclopedia
    • Originally called the Weimar pointer, the dog is pointerlike in general outline and similar to the German short-haired pointer, only larger.
  • (computing, programming) Like a pointer (variable holding a memory address).
  • * 1997 , Sriram Srinivasan, Advanced Perl programming
    • You must resist the temptation to implement basic data structures such as linked lists and trees just because a pointerlike capability is available.

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