"lookahead" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "Deverbal from look ahead",
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  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from look ahead.",
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        "(computing, software compilation) The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed."
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