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peekable en · ADJ

Etymology

From peek + -able.

Meanings

1. (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:
2. 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:

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