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hashkey en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From hash + key.

Meanings

1. (rare) The key used to locate a value in a hash table or equivalent data structure.
   • ...thus minimizing the number of I/Os needed to search through the chain for a single hashkey value. 2001, Elizabeth O'Neil, Database: Principles, Programming, and Performance:
   • ...the qualifier would indicate the hashkey that returns the single required object rather than the whole set. 2002, Andy Carmichael, Dan Haywood, Better Software Faster:
   • Rather than store all the data in some type of sorted order, the data is to be stored and accessed on the basis of a hashkey that is computed by a function... 1995, Ronald J Leach, Object-oriented Design and Programming with C++:

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