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hashrates

hashrates is the plural of hashrate.

Meaning of hashrate

Noun

hashrate (plural hashrates)

  1. The number of proof of work hashes that a mining computer can make in a given period of time, usually a second.
    • Specialized hardware like a GPU is designed to do large numbers of small tasks very quickly, and so excel at hashing: typically a single GPU can produce a hashrate at least ten times faster than that of a single CPU.2017, Adam Rothstein, The End of Money, John Murray Press, →ISBN
  2. The network hashrate; the estimated number of hashes generated by the entire mining network.
    • BitCoin hashrate

Questions about hashrates

What is hashrates the plural of?
Hashrates is the plural of hashrate.

Words near hashrates in the dictionary

  1. Hashmi
  2. Hashmis
  3. hashpipe
  4. hashpipes
  5. hashrate
  6. hashrates
  7. Hashshashin
  8. hashslinger
  9. hashslingers
  10. hasht-nafari
  11. hashtable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hashrates (page history and authors); hashrate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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