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As a noun, cache means a store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way. As a verb, it means place in a cache.
Meanings of cache
9 meaningsnoun
A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
“Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down food caches to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from food cache to food cache on their return journey.”
computingA fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
geocachingA container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
(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
Similar: memory cache
Misspelling of cachet.
verb
To place in a cache.
computingTo store data in a cache.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).