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verification vs checksum

checksum vs verification

verification and checksum both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
verification Yes No No No
checksum Yes No No No
As nouns, checksum is a hyponym of verification; that is, checksum is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than verification:
  • verification: additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
  • checksum: a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage
Other hyponyms of verification include bed check, crosscheck, odd-even check, parity check, redundancy check.
verification (noun) checksum (noun)
additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage
(law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement
Difference between verification and checksum

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