caching

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noun

The act or process of caching.

Less commonScrabble 15

Meanings

nouncaching (countable and uncountable, plural cachings)

plural cachings

  1. countableuncountableThe 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
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    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
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cache
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APA

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MLA

“caching.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caching. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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