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package smile.nlp.dictionary;

import java.util.Iterator;

/**
 * A dictionary is a set of words in some natural language.
 *
 * @author Haifeng Li
 */
public interface Dictionary {

    /**
     * Returns true if this dictionary contains the specified word.
     */
    boolean contains(String word);

    /**
     * Returns the number of elements in this dictionary.
     */
    int size();

    /**
     * Returns an iterator over the elements in this dictionary.
     */
    Iterator iterator();
}