hash
IPA: hˈæʃ
noun
- Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
- A confused mess.
- (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- (computing) The result generated by a hash function.
- (computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
- A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
- A hash run.
- (Scotland) A stupid fellow.
- (informal) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
- To make a quick, rough version.
- (computing, transitive) To transform according to a hash function.
- (transitive, colloquial) To make a mess of (something); to ruin.
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Examples of "hash" in Sentences
- Hash contains the wax and the oil.
- Also consider the source of the hash.
- That's the squiggle above the hash sign.
- Dasua is also the home of Hash Biotech Farms.
- The gadget sends back the command and the hash.
- The downside is extra latency from computing the hash function.
- The hash function prevents the listener figuring out the password.
- The collisions are internal to the implementation of the hash table.
- For additional hash functions see the box at the bottom of the page.
- Specifically, the hash function is used to map the search key to the hash.