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Software Engineering vocabulary · Data Structures and Algorithms

Set

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, set means: A collection that stores distinct values and supports operations such as membership checks, union and intersection.

In Turkish: küme

How it is used

Used in algorithms to remove duplicates or track visited items. Ordering and equality rules depend on the implementation.

Example sentences

  1. Add each processed identifier to the set to prevent duplicate work.

  2. The set contains only one copy of each normalized email address.

Common collocations

  • set membership
  • set union
  • empty set
  • data structureA way of organizing data in memory, such as an array, list, tree or hash map, so that certain operations are fast and simple.
  • arrayAn ordered collection of items stored one after another, where each item can be reached by its position number, called an index.
  • hash mapA data structure that stores key-value pairs and finds the value for a given key very quickly, usually in constant time.

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