1. Concealed or hidden on any grounds for any motive.
2. Not accessible to view; SYN. hidden, out of sight.

ETYM Old Fren. covert, French couvert, p. p. of couvrir. Related to Cover.
1. Secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed.
2. (Law) Of a wife; under the protection of her husband.

1. Designed to elude detection; SYN. secret.
2. Difficult to find; SYN. obscure.

ETYM Pref. in- not + direct: cf. French indirect.
1. Not as a direct effect or consequence.
2. Having intervening factors or persons or influences.
3. Not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination.
4. Extended senses: not direct in manner or language or behavior or action.

ETYM Latin reconditus, p. p. of recondere to put up again, to lay up, to conceal; pref. re- re- + condere to bring or lay together. Related to Abscond.
1. Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse.
2. Dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching.
Out of the way; little known.
Concealed; abstruse; erudite. + prikaži više

ETYM French secret (cf. Spanish and Portu. secreto, Italian secreto, segreto), from Latin secretus, p. p. of secernere to put apart, to separate. Related to Certain, Secrete, Secern.
1. Communicated covertly.
2. Not expressed; SYN. private.
3. Not open or public; kept private or not revealed.
4. The next to highest level of official classification for documents (before). + prikaži više

A place suitable for hiding something (such as oneself). hiding-place

ETYM French, a hiding place, from cacher to conceal, to hide.
(Computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics; SYN. memory cache.
A special memory subsystem in which frequently used data values are duplicated for quick access. A memory cache stores the contents of frequently accessed RAM locations and the addresses where these data items are stored. When the processor references an address in memory, the cache checks to see whether it holds that address. If it does hold the address, the data is returned to the processor; if it does not, a regular memory access occurs. A cache is useful when RAM accesses are slow compared with the microprocessor speed because cache memory is always faster than main RAM memory. See also disk cache, wait state.
A temporary storage area for frequently-accessed or recently-accessed data. Having certain data stored in a cache speeds up the operation of the computer. There are two kinds of cache: internal (or memory cache) and external (or disk cache). Internal cache is built into the processor, and external cache is on the motherboard. When an item is called for, the computer first checks the internal cache, then the external cache, and finally the slower main storage. + prikaži više