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Dictionary

Dictionary

Owned by Eliot Muir
Last updated: Nov 30, 2021
1 min read

A dictionary is a class of data structures which are accessible via key=value pairs.

We insert values and give them a key to access them by.

Examples of dictionaries are hash tables, AVL trees with keys and so on.

An example of a dictionary in Javascript is an Javascript Object.

 

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