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Disk Cache

Definition: Disk Cache

Disk Cache

Noun

1. A cache that stores copies of frequently used disk sectors in random access memory (RAM) so they can be read without accessing the slower disk.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Crosswords: Disk Cache

Specialty definitions using "disk cache": bus master ♦ FreeBSD ♦ main memory ♦ Novell DOS ♦ Smartdrive. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Disk Cache

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
disk cache	16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Disk Cache

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-h-i-k-s"
	-2 letters: hackies.
	-3 letters: cached, caches, caseic, cashed, casked, chaise, chased, checks, chicks, chides, haceks, hacked, hackie, khadis, khedas, sacked, sicced, sicked.
	-4 letters: ached, aches, acids, aides, asdic, ashed, aside, asked, cache, cades, cadis, caids, caked, cakes, cased, cedis, chads, chase, check, chias, chick, chics, chide, daces, dashi, deash, decks, dhaks, dices, dicks, dikes, hacek.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-h-i-k-s"
	+1 letter: chickadees.
	+3 letters: backstitched, switchbacked.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Disk Cache

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 6B 43 61 63 68 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01101011 00100000 01000011 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#107 &#32 &#67 &#97 &#99 &#104 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 006B 0043 0061 0063 0068 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3875857723767697471

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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