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least recently used

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Definition of least recently used words

  • noun Technical meaning of least recently used (operating systems) (LRU) A rule used in a paging system which selects a page to be paged out if it has been used (read or written) less recently than any other page. The same rule may also be used in a cache to select which cache entry to flush. This rule is based on temporal locality - the observation that, in general, the page (or cache entry) which has not been accessed for longest is least likely to be accessed in the near future. 0

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Parts of speech for Least recently used

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

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