checksum

English

Noun

Wikipedia checksum (plural checksums)

1. a number, derived by applying a suitable algorithm to some data, used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission, storage or data entry

Translations

number serving to detect error

• Afrikaans: kontrolesom
• Arabic: تدقيق مجموع (ar) (tadqiiq majmuu3) m
• Catalan: suma de verificació f, checksum m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 校驗和 (cmn), 校验和 (cmn) (jiàoyànhé), 檢查和 (cmn), 检查和 (cmn) (jiǎncháhé)

• Czech: kontrolní součet (cs) m
• Dutch: controlecijfer n, checksum
• Estonian: kontrollsumma
• Finnish: tarkiste (fi), tarkistussumma (fi)
• French: somme de contrôle (fr) f
• German: Prüfsumme (de) f
• Hebrew: סכום ביקורת (he) m

• Icelandic: prófsumma (is) f, gátsumma (is) f
• Japanese: チェックサム (ja) (chekkusamu)
• Korean: 체크섬 (ko) (chekeuseom)
• Norwegian: sjekksum m
• Polish: suma kontrolna f
• Portuguese: checksum (pt) m, soma de verificação (pt) f
• Russian: контрольная сумма (ru) (kontról'naja súmma) f 
• Slovak: kontrolný súčet m
• Spanish: suma de verificación (es) f, checksum (es) m
• Swedish: kontrollsumma c
• Turkish: sağlama toplamı (tr), sınama toplamı (tr), (aviation) kontrol hanesi (tr)
• Vietnamese: giá trị kiểm tra (vi), giá trị tổng kiểm (vi)

Verb

checksum (third-person singular simple present checksums, present participle checksumming, simple past and past participle checksummed)

1. To compute a checksum.

See also

• cyclic redundancy check / CRC