Cache

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In computing, a cache ( KASH) is a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the data stored in a cache might be the result of an earlier computation or a copy of data stored elsewhere.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Cache (computing)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Orion, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.