Cache Word Meaning

late 18th century: from French, from cacher ‘to hide’

a collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place

hidden items

• an arms cache
• a cache of gold coins

an auxiliary memory from which high-speed retrieval is possible

memory

• typical cache sizes range from 64K to 256K

store away in hiding or for future use

store

• he decided that they must cache their weapons

store (data) in a cache memory

store data

• the operating system tries to cache every disk operation