Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun checksum
1 sense of checksum
Sense 1
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)
=> confirmation, verification, check, substantiation -- (additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory")