Greediest

adjective

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.adjectiveHaving greed; consumed by selfish desires.

2.adjectiveProne to overeat.

3.adjectiveTending to match as much text as possible.

"This regular expression performs a greedy match."

4.adjective(of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.

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