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search engine

noun

Meaning

  1. An application that searches for, and retrieves, data based on some criteria, especially one that searches the Internet for documents containing specified words.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

search term(English)search as you type(English)subsearch(English)search-oriented architecture(English)search tree(English)seek(English)inverted index(English)screen-scraper(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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