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