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caching

caching noun: the act or process of caching. Also the present participle and gerund of cache.

Noun

caching (countable and uncountable, plural cachings)

  1. The act or process of caching.
    • Both static and dynamic web page cachings are supported by the policy.2010, Alexandros Labrinidis, Qiong Luo, Jie Xu, Caching and Materialization for Web Databases - Volume 2, page 74
    • Caching is implemented at the lowest level of the caching mechanism, just before the I/O is issued to the disk.2012, Bertrand Dufrasne, In Kyu Park, Francesco Perillo, Solid-State Drive Caching in the IBM XIV Storage System, page 13

Also used as

caching is also the present participle and gerund of cache.

Forms of caching

pluralcachings

Words formed from caching

Phrases with caching

Questions about caching

What does caching mean?
Caching means the act or process of caching.
What part of speech is caching?
Caching is a noun.
What is the plural of caching?
The plural of caching is cachings.

Words near caching in the dictionary

  1. cachexin
  2. cachexy
  3. cachibou
  4. cachibous
  5. cachinatory
  6. caching
  7. caching proxies
  8. caching proxy
  9. cachings
  10. cachinnate
  11. cachinnated

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