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Cache vs Ram - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between cache and ram

is that cache is a store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way while ram is a male sheep.

As verbs the difference between cache and ram

is that cache is to place in a cache while ram is to intentionally collide with (a ship) with the intention of damaging or sinking it.

As an acronym RAM is

random access memory.

As a proper noun Ram is

the constellation Aries.

cache

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A store of things that may be required in the future, which can be retrieved rapidly, protected or hidden in some way.
  • Members of the 29-man Discovery team laid down food caches''' to allow the polar team to travel light, hopping from food '''cache''' to food '''cache on their return journey.
  • (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
  • (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
  • References

    * JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

    Verb

    (cach)
  • To place in a cache.
  • (Marijuana smoking) For the herb in a bowl to be entirely burnt to ashes and therefore having become empty, gone, or useless for further smoking
  • ram

    English

    Acronym

    (Acronym) (head) (wikipedia RAM)
  • (electronics, computing) random access memory
  • (project management) responsibility assignment matrix
  • (risk management) reliability availability maintainability
  • (military) radar-absorbent material, a material absorbant to radar
  • (Royal Academy of Music)
  • Derived terms

    * NVRAM * SRAM * DRAM * SDRAM * FRAM * MRAM

    See also

    * flash memory * bubble memory * core memory * WORM

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