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Traverse

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Verified for the 2026 examโ€ขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025

Definition

Traversing refers to the process of accessing each element in a data structure (such as arrays or linked lists) one by one, usually for performing some operation on them.

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