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hash
See hash value and hash total.
hash [hash]
(computer science)
Data which are obviously meaningless, caused by human mistakes or computer malfunction. Also known as garbage; gibberish.
(electricity)
Electric noise produced by the contacts of a vibrator or by the brushes of a generator or motor.
(electronics)

1.(character)hash - hash character.
2.(programming)hash - hash coding.
3.hash - The preferred term for a Perl associative array.


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In like manner, we shall represent human nature at first to the keen appetite of our reader, in that more plain and simple manner in which it is found in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affectation and vice which courts and cities afford.
"Why," said he, "a magician could call up a lot of genies, and they would hash you up like nothing before you could say Jack Robinson.
We'll make mincemeat of the girl and hash of the chicken and sausage of the dog
 
 
 
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