Cache

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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Pronounced cash, a special high-speed storage mechanism. It can be either a reserved section of main memory or an independent high-speed storage device. Two types of caching are commonly used in personal computers: memory caching and disk caching.

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Caches
possessive: Cache's
pluralpossessive: Caches'

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