What does “bucket entries” mean in the context of a hashtable?

Question

What does \"bucket entries\" mean in the context of a hashtable?

Answer 1

I think Bucket is a structure that at least contain hash value, which works as indexes, (hash values are generated by hash functions), but the structure itself might contain entries (data) or not.

illustration:

[hash value][points to actual data] ---> [actual data]
|<------------bucket structure------>|

[hash value][actual data]
|-----bucket structure--->|

It is the [hash value] part works as indexes.

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I found these photos from hash_table Wikipedia are pretty straightforward.

The photos below indicates that entries (data) can be stored within buckets or it can be stored with its own data structure, while bucket simply points to the data.