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- noun computing, programming A
scheme forresolving hash collisions , using twohash functions instead of one, and allowing a newly insertedkey to "kick out" any existing key at the sameindex .
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Referring to the behaviour of some cuckoo chicks, which push other eggs or young out of the nest.
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