hash value

[ hash-val-yoo ]

nounComputers.
  1. (in an algorithmic process) a single integer representing data or information either transmitted or stored, the simplification of which facilitates comparison to integers representative of other information or data sets, also simplified in this way.

Origin of hash value

1
First recorded in 1965–70

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