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destage

destage verb: to asynchronously write new or updated data from a cache or nonvolatile storage to a direct access storage device.

Verb

destage (third-person singular simple present destages, present participle destaging, simple past and past participle destaged)

  1. To asynchronously write new or updated data from a cache or nonvolatile storage to a direct access storage device.
    • A root item of data is located, and then a working set of data is collected by identifying additional data in the cache that will be destaged to locations in the storage device adjacent to the root item of data.

Forms of destage

third-person singular presentdestages
present participledestaging
past participledestaged
pastdestaged

Origin of destage

From de- + stage.

Questions about destage

What does destage mean?
Destage means to asynchronously write new or updated data from a cache or nonvolatile storage to a direct access storage device.
What part of speech is destage?
Destage is a verb.
What is the past tense of destage?
The past tense of destage is destaged.

Words near destage in the dictionary

  1. destacks
  2. destaff
  3. destaffed
  4. destaffing
  5. destaffs
  6. destage
  7. destaged
  8. destages
  9. destaging
  10. destain
  11. destained

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