breadth-first search

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Noun

breadth-first search (countable and uncountable, plural breadth-first searches)

  1. (graph theory) A search algorithm that begins at the root node and explores all the neighboring nodes.
    Synonym: BFS
    Coordinate term: depth-first search

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