Memory and Cache

noun

• Something that is remembered.
  • usage: "search as he would, the memory was lost"
• The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.
  • usage: "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"
  • synonyms: remembering
• The power of retaining and recalling past experience.
  • usage: "he had a good memory when he was younger"
  • synonyms: retention, retentiveness, retentivity
• An electronic memory device.
  • usage: "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
  • synonyms: computer memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board
• The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes.
  • usage: "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"

• (n.) The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
• (n.) The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
• (n.) The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
• (n.) Something or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
• (n.) A memorial.
• (n.) The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions or events.

noun

• A hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons. )
• A secret store of valuables or money.
  • synonyms: hoard, stash
• 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)
  • synonyms: memory cache

verb

• Save up as for future use.
  • synonyms: hoard, stash, lay away, hive up, squirrel away

(n.) A hole in the ground or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.

Cache is either masculine or feminine given name

• Name Meaning: Storage Place
• Name Origin: American

(DoD) A 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 isolated personnel. See also concealment; evader; evasion; recovery; recovery operations.