pointerlike

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1. Like a pointer (needle-like indicator).

   Twins in many respects, each tube has a light-sensitive screen and a pointerlike beam of electrons.

   1953, De Witt Wallace, Lila Bell Wallace, The Reader's Digest

2. Like a pointer (hunting dog).

   Originally called the Weimar pointer, the dog is pointerlike in general outline and similar to the German short-haired pointer, only larger.

   1980, Academic American Encyclopedia

3. computingLike a pointer (variable holding a memory address).

   You must resist the temptation to implement basic data structures such as linked lists and trees just because a pointerlike capability is available.

   1997, Sriram Srinivasan, Advanced Perl programming