(US, law enforcement) A search carried out by the police during a Terry stop.

plural of search party

plural of binary search

(computing theory) A search for a value within a sorted array by repeatedly comparing the target value with the middle element; if they are unequal, the half in which the target cannot lie is eliminated and the comparison is repeated on the remaining half.

plural of soul searching

plural of fingertip search

plural of jackstay search

plural of stop-and-search

plural of stop-and-search

(Internet) The transmission of a user's search terms from a search engine to the site in the search results that the user chooses to visit; regarded as a privacy risk.