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cache

/kæɪʃ/noun

A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.

Example sentence

  • “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.”
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cookieA small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.bufferingThe use of a buffer.bookmarkA strip of material used to mark a place in a book.latencyA delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.hyperlinkSome text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action.bandwidthThe rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate.