Визначення слова «greedy» мовою англійська

adjective

1. Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.

2. Prone to overeat.

3. (regular expressions) Tending to match as much text as possible.

   • This regular expression performs a greedy match.

4. (computer science, of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.

5. (archaic) Greedily sought or pursued.