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hash

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


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It was producing, he argued, a rash of illiberal democracies, defined roughly as countries where popularly elected leaders, unconstrained by any well-established institutions or habits of law-based liberalism, were trampling political and civil rights and generally making a hash out of democracy.
Zakaria's complaint. (Books) by Carothers, Thomas / The National Interest
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