uncacheable

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adjective

Not cacheable.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectiveuncacheable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot cacheable.

    All cacheable regions are bufferable (evicted cache lines are written through the write buffer) but uncacheable regions may be bufferable or unbufferable.

    2000, Stephen Bo Furber, ARM system-on-chip architecture

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishcacheable
  9. Englishuncacheable

From un- + cacheable.

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APA

uncacheable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncacheable

MLA

“uncacheable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncacheable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncacheable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncacheable.

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