"AVL tree" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: AVL trees [plural]
Etymology: Named after Georgy Adelson-Velsky and Evgenii Landis, the inventors of this data structure. Etymology templates: {{yesno||n|N}} N, {{!}} |, {{lang|en|Georgy Adelson-Velsky}} Georgy Adelson-Velsky, {{named-after|en|Georgy Adelson-Velsky|wplink=Georgy Adelson-Velsky}} Named after Georgy Adelson-Velsky Head templates: {{en-noun}} AVL tree (plural AVL trees)
  1. (computer science) A self-balancing binary search tree, where, for each node, the heights of the two child subtrees differ only by at most one. Wikipedia link: Evgenii Landis

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