| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  k sh |
| NOUN: | 1a. A hiding place used especially for storing provisions. b. A place for concealment and safekeeping, as of valuables. c. A store of goods or valuables concealed in a hiding place: maintained a cache of food in case of emergencies. 2. Computer Science A fast storage buffer in the central processing unit of a computer. Also called cache memory. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: cached, cach·ing, cach·es
To hide or store in a cache. See synonyms at hide1. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from cacher, to hide, from Old French, to press, hide, from Vulgar Latin *co cticre, to store, pack together, frequentative of Latin coctre, to constrain, from coctus, past participle of c gere, to force. See cogent.
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