Hash: meaning and definitions — Infoplease.com. Hash - Definition of hash - Online Dictionary from Datasegment.com. Hash - WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) (?)
Hash n 1: chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned 2: purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen [syn: hashish, hasheesh, haschisch, hash] v 1: chop up; "hash the potatoes" hash - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (?) Hash function. A hash function that maps names to integers from 0 to 15.
There is a collision between keys "John Smith" and "Sandra Dee". Uses[edit] Hash tables[edit] Thus, the hash function only hints at the record's location — it tells where one should start looking for it.