cache

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[edit] English

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[edit] Noun

Singular
cache

Plural
caches

cache (plural caches)

  1. A store of things that will be required in future, and can be retrieved rapidly. A cache may, or may not, be hidden.
    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 most recent or most frequent values are stored to avoid having to reload from a slower storage medium.
  3. (military) In evasion and recovery operations, source of subsistence and supplies, typically containing items such as food, water, medical items, and/or communications equipment, packaged to prevent damage from exposure and hidden in isolated locations by such methods as burial, concealment, and/or submersion, to support evaders in current or future operations.
  4. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

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  • JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to cache

Third person singular
caches

Simple past
cached

Past participle
cached

Present participle
caching

to cache (third-person singular simple present caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)

  1. To place in a cache.

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[edit] Noun 1

cache f. (plural caches)

  1. hiding place

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cache m. (plural caches)

  1. cover, mask

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cache

  1. First and third person singular of cacher
    je cache
    il/elle/on cache

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See cacher

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