hashes

Noun

hash (plural hashes)

1. Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
   • Near-synonym: scramble

   Synonyms:

   scramble

2. A confused mess.
   • Oh! no, not Naylor's--the girls have made a hash there, as they do everything else; but we will settle her before they come out again.1847, Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters
3. The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
   • The keyboard 10 has four named keys (not shown) marked “VIEWDATA”, “PROGRAM”, “PAGE TRANSMIT”, and “CLEAR” and two further keys (marked respectively with an asterisk and a hash symbol) in addition to the numeric keys previously mentioned.1981 September 15, David C. A. Connolly, Harry Shutt, U.S. Patent 4289930, Electronic aparatus for the display of information received over a line

   Synonyms:

   crunch, hash mark /hashmark, hash sign, hashtag, number sign, octothorpe /octothorn, pound, pound sign, square

4. The result generated by a hash function.

   Synonyms:

   checksum

5. One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
6. A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
   • October 28, 1752, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
     I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.

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