uncache

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Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ cache

Verb[edit]

uncache (third-person singular simple present uncaches, present participle uncaching, simple past and past participle uncached)

  1. (transitive) To remove from a cache.
    • 1962, Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Poetry, volumes 99-100, page 287:
      What widdershins of tread / Will now uncache the haunted gold, the buried heart, / From secret mould?
    • 1999, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Operating Systems:
      Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables.

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