
1) Secretly hiding 2) Squirreling away
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To make use of a cache for improved performance,
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In printing,
bitmaps of letters are saved in memory or on the printers hard disk to minimize the amount of time spent generating them. The first time a particular letter is imaged, its bitmap is generated and cached. Subsequent uses of that letter can use t...
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hiding and storing food - e.g., in the crevices of bark and under leaves. Retrieval of cached food items is not accidental, as in scatterhoarding. For example, Black-capped Chickadees can remember the location of the stored food for up to a month after hiding it.
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The behavior of storing food in an often hidden location (a “cache”) for later retrieval and consumption.
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The storage of berries, seeds, and other food items in the crevices of bark, under leaves, in cavities, and the like. Retrieval of cached food items is not accidental, as in scatterhoarding.
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A small fast memory holding recently-accessed data, designed to speed up subsequent access to the same data. Most often applied to processor-memory access but also used for a local copy of data accessible over a network etc.
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