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Confuse vs Hashkey - What's the difference?

confuse | hashkey |

As a verb confuse

is to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.

As a noun hashkey is

(computing|rare) the key used to locate a value in a hash table or equivalent data structure.

confuse

English

Verb

(confus)
  • To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
  • (obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
  • To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
  • To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
  • To mistake one thing for another.

    • Synonyms

    * flummox * mistake * See also

    Related terms

    * confused * confusing * confusion

    See also

    * discombobulate ----

    hashkey

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, rare) The key used to locate a value in a hash table or equivalent data structure.
  • * 1995 , Ronald J Leach, Object-oriented Design and Programming with C++
    • Rather than store all the data in some type of sorted order, the data is to be stored and accessed on the basis of a hashkey that is computed by a function...
  • * 2001 , Elizabeth O'Neil, Database: Principles, Programming, and Performance
    • ...thus minimizing the number of I/Os needed to search through the chain for a single hashkey value.
  • * 2002 , Andy Carmichael, Dan Haywood, Better Software Faster
    • ...the qualifier would indicate the hashkey that returns the single required object rather than the whole set.