rehash
/ɹiːˈhæʃ/ verb, noun
Forms rehashes rehashing rehashed re-hash
- verb (transitive) To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
- verb (transitive) To repeat with minor variation. “Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.”
- verb (transitive) To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event. “Let's not rehash what we did last night.”
- verb (transitive, computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
- noun Something reworked, or made up from old materials. “He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.”
- noun (computing) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
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Webster’s 1913
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rehash”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details