Cache

Pronunciation

• UK enPR: kăsh, IPA: /kæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ not Australia
• Homophones: cash not Australia

Origin

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean "hiding place for stores"), from the verb cacher.

Full definition of cache

Noun

1. A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.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 recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.

Related terms

• concealment
• evader
• evasion
• evasion and recovery
• recovery
• recovery operations

Verb

1. To place in a cache.
2. (Marijuana smoking) For the herb in a bowl to be entirely burnt to ashes and therefore having become empty, gone, or useless for further smoking