cache  /ˈkæʃ/ ? Meaning of "cache"

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Definition(s):

  1. (n) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
  2. (n) a secret store of valuables or money
  3. (n) (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
  4. (v) save up as for future use

Usage(s):

  1. Exclusive: A cache of letters by Anne Frank's father, written in 1941 before the family went into hiding, have been uncovered by a Jewish research institute.
  2. What remained for him to do was transform this cache into an art that could measure up to his own expectations.
  3. Iraqi soldiers inspect a cache of weapons found during a raid in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in April.

Quotes

  1. "It's our best judgment that these particular EFPs ...... in recent large cache finds do not appear to have arrived here in Iraq after those pledges were made," Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, director of the Multi-National Force-Iraq's communications...
    on Nov 6, 2007 By: Gregory Smith Source: Guardian Unlimited

  2. "They no longer are much of a force. Nobody talks much about them. It is a historical remnant of their heyday that gives them any kind of cache," said Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for Free Choice.
    on Jan 19, 2007 By: Frances Kissling Source: Washington Post

  3. "We've had this policy where you can't store and cache any data for more than 24 hours, and we're going to go ahead and we're going to get rid of that policy," Zuckerberg said.
    on Apr 21, 2010 By: Mark Zuckerberg Source: ZDNet Asia

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