hash bucket: n. A notional receptacle, a set of which might be
used to apportion data items for sorting or lookup purposes. When
you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically
hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the
alphabetically ordered letter sections. This term is used as
techspeak with respect to code that uses actual hash functions; in
jargon, it is used for human associative memory as well. Thus, two
things `in the same hash bucket' are more difficult to discriminate,
and may be confused. "If you hash English words only by length, you
get too many common grammar words in the first couple of hash
buckets." Compare hash collision.
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