peekable
adjEtymology From peek + -able.
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Informal Capable of being peeked at or into.
- Her fourteen dollhouses range in sophistication from a child-made primitive (1887) to an electrified manse set on a low table and peekable from all sides.1972, New York Magazine, volume 5, number 31, page 45:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of a stream or other sequence: from which the next value can be retrieved without advancing the pointer from its current position.
- Peekable streams also have an internal record of their current position and can look ahead in the stream for information.2012, John Hunt, Smalltalk and Object Orientation: An Introduction, page 130: