DHT
DHT is the initialism of dihydrotestosterone.
DHT is the initialism of distributed hash table.
Meaning of dihydrotestosterone
Noun
dihydrotestosterone (countable and uncountable, plural dihydrotestosterones)
- An androgenic metabolite of testosterone; used to treat certain breast cancers.
- However, high levels of the nonaromatizable androgen dihydrotestosterone and of sex-hormone binding globulin that inhibit fat accumulation in the abdomen might also contribute to reducing the waist.2015 August 17, Ricardo Mondragón-Ceballos et al., “Waist-to-Hip Ratio, but Not Body Mass Index, Is Associated with Testosterone and Estradiol Concentrations in Young Women”, in International Journal...
Meaning of distributed hash table
Noun
distributed hash table (plural distributed hash tables)
- A decentralised distributed system that performs the functions of a hash table.
- The distributed hash table is a parallelization of the hash table obtained by dividing the table into subtables of equal size and allocating them to the processors. […] We also discuss communication overheads, and find that, in the case of mesh multicomputers, unless the network channel bandwidth...1992, Nobuyuki Ichiyoshi, Konighi Komura, Asymptotic Load Balance of Distributed Hash Tables, Institute for New Generation Computer Technology staff (editors), FGCS '92: Fifth Generation Computer...
- Synonyms:
- DHT
Forms of DHT
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Questions about DHT
- What is DHT the initialism of?
- DHT is the initialism of dihydrotestosterone.
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