Lookahead

Lookahead or Look Ahead may refer to:

A parameter of some combinatorial search algorithms, describing how deeply the graph representing the problem is explored
A parameter of some parsing algorithms; the maximum number of tokens that a parser can use to decide which rule to use
In dynamic range compression, a signal processing design to avoid compromise between slow attack rates that produce smooth-sounding gain changes, and fast attack rates capable of catching transients
Look-ahead (backtracking), a subprocedure that attempts to predict the effects of choosing a branching variable to evaluate or one of its values
Lookahead carry unit, a logical unit in digital circuit design used to decrease calculation time in adder units
Look Ahead, a charitable housing association in London
In regular expressions, an assertion to match characters after the current position

Education[edit]

Look Ahead, 1990s English as a foreign language multimedia classroom project by BBC English and other organisations