CHECKSUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does checksum mean? 

• CHECKSUM (noun)
  The noun CHECKSUM has 1 sense:

1. a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage

  Familiarity information: CHECKSUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHECKSUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("checksum" is a kind of...):

check; confirmation; substantiation; verification (additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct)

 Context examples 

The receiving system recomputes the checksum based upon the received data and compares this value with the one sent with the data.

(Checksum, NCI Thesaurus)

A file format consisting of a 10-byte header containing a magic number, a version number, and a timestamp, a Deflate-compressed body, and an 8-byte footer containing a checksum and the length of the original uncompressed data.

(gzip File Format, NCI Thesaurus)