If you haven’t cracked the code yet, the solution you seek is “cache.” To cache something is to hide it away, and in computing, a cache is an auxiliary memory from which you can quickly retrieve data. You should be familiar with the term if you’re even a tad tech-savvy, especially in terms of storage management. If you were running out of storage on your smartphone, you could free up some space by clearing your cache (here’s how to do it on Android or iPhone).
The word is of French origin, from Canadian trappers’ slang for a hiding place for stores and provisions — derived from French “cacher” or “cachier,” which means to hide or conceal. It also has roots in Vulgar Latin “coacticare,” meaning to store up, collect, or compress, and “coactus,” which is the past participle of cogere “to collect” — or literally “to drive together.”
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