cache
pronunciation
How to pronounce cache in British English:
UK [kæʃ]
How to pronounce cache in American English:
US [kæʃ]
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- Noun:
- a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
- a secret store of valuables or money
- (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics
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- Verb:
- save up as for future use
Word Origin
- cache (n.)
- 1797, "hiding place," from French Canadian trappers' slang, "hiding place for stores" (1660s), a back-formation from French cacher "to hide, conceal" (13c., Old French cachier), from Vulgar Latin *coacticare "store up, collect, compress," frequentative of Latin coactare "constrain," from coactus, past participle of cogere "to collect" (see cogent). Sense extended by 1830s to "anything stored in a hiding place."
Example
- 1. Wuala also supports adding images from the cache .
- 2. This is not a full featured database cache .
- 3. My favorite change in activerecord isquery cache .
- 4. Moreover , all agents must listen to all transactions in order to maintain cache coherence .
- 5. Subsequent requests will pull the data from memcache until it expires out of the cache or is deleted by another update .