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If a user then uploads the same video to YouTube, the hash will be almost identical, and it can be flagged as a possible copyright violation.

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  1. noun A dish of chopped meat, potatoes, and sometimes vegetables, usually browned.
  2. noun A jumble; a hodgepodge.
  3. noun Informal A mess: made a hash of the project.
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  • In brief, DES takes submitted data and encodes it using a one-way operation sometimes referred to as a hash . —  Maximum Security -- Ch 10 -- Password Crackers
  • This hash is important to the different levels of Windows operating system, because the newer operating systems support better password hash algorithms. —  WindowSecurity.com
  • Unwinding a full url from it's hash is a very fast operation - that's why data structures such as hash tables exist (and they are obviously kept by Google to send the full 256-bit hash back). —  סטארטר
  • I agree that saying they can't get the URL from the hash is a little odd when they're sat on the hash table! —  סטארטר
  • As far as whether or not the Ruby hash should be an ordered hash, it seems pretty obvious that it shouldn't. —  RubyCorner
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  1. Variant of Middle English hache, from Old French, past participle of hacher, hachier, to chop up, from hache, ax, of Germanic origin; see hatchet.

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  1. Ult. from French hacher, chop, mince; but the English verb is due rather to the noun hash, which is from a deriv. of the F. verb; of earlier introduction, from the same French verb, is English hatch. See hatch and hack, which are doublets of hash.
  2. Abbr. of older hachey or hachee, from Old French hachis, minced meat (cf. haggis), from hacher, hack, shred, slice, hew, chop, cut in pieces, from German hacken = English hack: see hack and hatch.
 

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