hashkey

noun

Etymology

From hash + key.

  1. derived from *ǵogʰ-
  2. derived from *kēgaz
  3. inherited from *kaiju
  4. inherited from cǣġ
  5. inherited from keye
  6. compounded as hashkey — “hash + key

Definitions

  1. The key used to locate a value in a hash table or equivalent data structure.

    • 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...
    • ...thus minimizing the number of I/Os needed to search through the chain for a single hashkey value.
    • ...the qualifier would indicate the hashkey that returns the single required object rather than the whole set.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hashkey. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA