"segment tree" meaning in English

See segment tree in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: segment trees [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} segment tree (plural segment trees)
  1. (computer science) A data structure that is used to store information about intervals (segments) and perform range queries, or queries on a set of intervals, in logarithmic time. Categories (topical): Computer science Synonyms: statistic tree, segtree

Inflected forms

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