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A hash table is a very fast kind of lookup table, somewhat like an alist in that it maps keys to corresponding values, but much faster. Hash tables have no read syntax, and print using hash notation. See Hash Tables, for functions that operate on hash tables.
(make-hash-table)
=> #<hash-table 'eql nil 0/65 0x83af980>