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What (who) is look-ahead - definition


Look-ahead (backtracking)         
SUBPROCEDURE THAT ATTEMPTS TO PREDICT THE EFFECTS OF CHOOSING A BRANCHING VARIABLE TO EVALUATE OR ONE OF ITS VALUES
Backtracking look-ahead; Forward checking
In backtracking algorithms, look ahead is the generic term for a subprocedure that attempts to foresee the effects of choosing a branching variable to evaluate one of its values. The two main aims of look-ahead are to choose a variable to evaluate next and the order of values to assign to it.
look ahead         
v. (D; intr.) to look ahead to (to look ahead to a bright future)
look ahead         
If you look ahead, you think about what is going to happen in the future and perhaps make plans for the future.
I'm trying to look ahead at what might happen and be ready to handle it.
PHRASAL VERB: V P
Examples of use of look-ahead
1. "If you look ahead, Congress is going into a major confrontation mode.
2. So let us try and take a step back and look ahead from relatively calmer land.
3. As investors continued to look ahead to 2006, the overarching view remained one of dollar bearishness.
4. "When we go home, when we drive, we don‘t look ahead.
5. Germany‘s Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, in welcoming Wolfowitz‘s departure, said the organization must look ahead.