Salt
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
A non-secret value that is used in a cryptographic process, usually to ensure that the results of computations for one instance cannot be reused by an Attacker.
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Senses
Wordset Dictionary
the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
Wordset Dictionary
white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
Wordset Dictionary
a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
Classifications
Entity Type
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Sensitivity
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Information Class
—80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- salinitysaltinesstable salt
- plural
- Salts
- possessive
- Salt's
- pluralpossessive
- Salts'