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NSDictionary is a class used to organize objects in lists using keys and values. NSDictionary can maintain an index of objects and let you retrieve an object if you have the right key. Usually, the key will be an NSString object while the value will be whatever type of object you are indexing.

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Campbell, M. (2013). Dictionaries. In: Objective-C Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6488-0_9

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