Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun disk_cache

1 sense of disk cache

Sense 1
disk cache -- (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)
       => cache, memory cache -- ((computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics)