hashkey
nounEtymology From hash + key.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Rare 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...1995, Ronald J Leach, Object-oriented Design and Programming with C++:
- ...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:
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- ...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: