Suffix tree

How it is used

Used in text processing, bioinformatics, and pattern matching. It supports efficient queries, though it can use significant memory.

Example sentences

1. For the plagiarism prototype, we built a suffix tree to detect long repeated phrases across thousands of submitted essays.

   Here the structure makes substring matching efficient when the system must compare many text segments at scale.

2. The researcher chose a suffix tree because the genome tool needed fast substring queries on a very large sequence.

   In this sentence, the term highlights a specialized indexing structure designed for repeated string-search operations.

Common collocations

• suffix tree construction
• compressed suffix tree
• suffix tree traversal

Related terms

• 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.
• algorithmA clear, step-by-step method for solving a problem or doing a task, such as sorting a list or finding the shortest route between two points.

More terms: Data Structures and Algorithms

• array
• iterate
• hash map
• recursion
• Big O notation
• time complexity
• index
• sort
• stack
• queue
• linked list
• tree