English
Etymology
From check + sum.
Pronunciation
Noun
checksum (plural checksums)
- (mathematics, computing) A number, derived by applying a suitable algorithm to some data, used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission, storage or data entry.
Derived terms
Translations
number serving to detect error
- Afrikaans: kontrolesom
- Arabic: تَدْقِيق مَجْمُوع m (tadqīq majmūʕ)
- Catalan: suma de verificació f, checksum m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 校驗和 / 校验和 (jiàoyànhé), 檢查和 / 检查和 (jiǎncháhé)
- Czech: kontrolní součet m
- Dutch: controlecijfer n, checksum
- Esperanto: kontrolsumo
- Estonian: kontrollsumma
- Finnish: tarkiste, tarkistussumma (fi), tarkastussumma
- French: somme de contrôle (fr) f
- German: Prüfsumme (de) f
- Greek: άθροισμα ελέγχου n (áthroisma elénchou)
- Hebrew: סכום ביקורת m
- Hungarian: ellenőrző összeg
- Icelandic: prófsumma f, gátsumma f
- Japanese: チェックサム (chekkusamu)
- Korean: 체크섬 (chekeuseom)
- Norwegian: sjekksum m
- Polish: suma kontrolna f
- Portuguese: checksum m, soma de verificação f
- Russian: контро́льная су́мма f (kontrólʹnaja súmma)
- Serbo-Croatian: kontrolni zbir, provjerni zbir m, proverni zbir m
- Slovak: kontrolný súčet m
- Spanish: suma de verificación f, checksum m
- Swedish: kontrollsumma c
- Turkish: sağlama toplamı, sınama toplamı, (aviation) kontrol hanesi
- Ukrainian: контро́льна су́ма f (kontrólʹna súma)
- Vietnamese: giá trị kiểm tra, giá trị tổng kiểm (vi)
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Verb
checksum (third-person singular simple present checksums, present participle checksumming, simple past and past participle checksummed)
- (mathematics, computing) To compute a checksum.
See also
Portuguese
Noun
checksum m (plural checksums)
- checksum (number serving to detect error)
- Synonym: soma de verificação