Rehash

Pronunciation

Full definition of rehash

Verb

1. (transitive) To rework old material (physical material, ideas, documents etc), redo some work, with some variations.Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference.The general rehashed plans for the war.
2. (transitive, computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

Noun

1. Something reworked, or made up from old materials.He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.
2. (computing) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.