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Definition checksum in American English

checksum noun

[countable] noun
/ˈtʃekˌsʌm/
1

a number that is the total of the digits in a piece of data that has been stored or sent in digital form. It is used to check that nothing has gone wrong with the data.

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Definition checksum in American English