TEXT-MATCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does text-matching mean? 

• TEXT-MATCHING (noun)
  The noun TEXT-MATCHING has 1 sense:

1. a computer program that looks for text that matches a given text

  Familiarity information: TEXT-MATCHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEXT-MATCHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A computer program that looks for text that matches a given text

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

Google uses text-matching to find web pages containing a particular text

Hypernyms ("text-matching" is a kind of...):

computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)