skip lists

A form of skip list — A probabilistic data structure that allows fast search within an ordered sequence of elements by maintaining a linked hierarchy of subsequences, with each successive subsequence skipping over fewer elements than the previous one.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of skip list
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