Cache

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• (Australia, NZ) IPA: /kæɪʃ/
• (UK, US) enPR: kăsh, IPA: /kæʃ/

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  Rhymes: -æʃ (not Australia)

  Homophone: cash (not Australia)

Noun

Cache (plural Caches)

1. 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.

2. (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently- or frequently-used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

Related terms

• concealment
• evader
• evasion
• evasion and recovery
• recovery
• recovery operations

Verb

Cache (third-person singular simple present Caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)

1. To place in a cache.

Thesaurus

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