a time period of a week or more

decline formally or politely

The BLU-82 is a large-yield conventional bomb used by the United States military, often referred to as the Daisy Cutter. It was designed to create an instant clearing in dense vegetation or to create a psychological impact on the enemy due to its large blast radius. It was often used during the Vietnam War and in the Gulf War. The BLU-82 contains 6,800 kg of GSX Slurry (ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder and polystyrene) and was, until 1991, the largest conventional bomb in existence.

a brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes

Punch buggy is a car game generally played by children in which participants punch each other in the arm upon first sight of a Volkswagen Beetle while calling out Slug bug! or Punch buggy! in reference to the Beetles nickname, the Bug. The color of the Beetle is also stated.

the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed

a seaport in northwestern Italy; provincial capital of Liguria

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In computer science, a cache is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere. If requested data is contained in the cache, this request can be served by simply reading the cache, which is comparatively faster. Otherwise, the data has to be recomputed or fetched from its original storage location, which is comparatively slower. Hence, the greater the number of requests that can be served from the cache, the faster the overall system performance becomes.
To be cost efficient and to enable an efficient use of data, caches are relatively small. Nevertheless, caches have proven themselves in many areas of computing because access patterns in typical computer applications have locality of reference. References exhibit temporal locality if data is requested again that has been recently requested already. References exhibit spatial locality if data is requested that is physically stored close to data that has been requested already.

A combination of (1) and (2).