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pointerlike en · ADJ

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Etymology

Etymology tree English pointer Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English pointerlike From pointer + -like.

Meanings

1. 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:
2. 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:
3. 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:

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