cache
A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
Noun
- A store, protected and often hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
- Near-synonym: stash
- Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from cache to cache on their return journey.
- I came across a cache of old photos / And invitations to teenage parties - 1990, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, “Being Boring”, performed by Pet Shop Boys:
Synonyms: stash
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Such a store of physical supplies, placed by humans or other animals for practical reasons.
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(computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
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(geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Synonyms: geocache
Origin
From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).
Forms
Derived
cacheability cacheable cache buster cache busting Cache County cache language model cacheless cache-oblivious cache stampede femtocache geocache multicache subcache Tête Jaune Cache uncache
Noun alt of, misspelling
- Misspelling of cachet.
- The prophecies are an attempt to explore the mystery of democracy, to divine its origin in order to capitalize on its political cache, but also to diagnose the cause of its contemporary malaise. - 2014, Nils Bubandt,...
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Verb
- To place in a cache.
- And here the adventurers went ashore, unloaded, turned their canoe bottom up in the shelter of thick brush, and cached their supplies temporarily on a pole scaffold, out of reach of prowling depredators. - 1922, A. M....
- To store data in a cache.
- In this case, it would not be ideal to use the full-page caching that the per-site or per-view cache strategies offer, because you wouldn't want to cache the entire result (since some of the data changes often), but...
- To participate in geocaching.
- To hide or seek a geocache.
- to store up, stockpile