uncache
uncache verb: to remove from a cache.
Verb
uncache (third-person singular simple present uncaches, present participle uncaching, simple past and past participle uncached)
- To remove from a cache.
- What widdershins of tread / Will now uncache the haunted gold, the buried heart, / From secret mould?1962, Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Poetry, volumes 99-100, page 287
- Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.1999, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems
Forms of uncache
| third-person singular present | uncaches |
|---|---|
| present participle | uncaching |
| past participle | uncached |
| past | uncached |
Origin of uncache
From un- + cache.
Questions about uncache
- What does uncache mean?
- Uncache means to remove from a cache.
- What part of speech is uncache?
- Uncache is a verb.
- What is the past tense of uncache?
- The past tense of uncache is uncached.
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