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1. Memory management is a process of efficiently allocating and deallocating memory in an operating system to optimize overall system performance.

2. A small circuit board that contains multiple RAM chips and is inserted into a computer's motherboard to provide additional memory.

3. A technique that uses a portion of the computer's hard drive as an extension of RAM, allowing the system to run more programs simultaneously.

4. An area of the hard disk used by the operating system as an extension of physical memory (RAM) when the system needs more memory than it currently has.

5. Cache memory is a type of high-speed memory that stores frequently used data for quicker access.

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6. In cache memory, a miss occurs when the requested data is not found in the cache and needs to be fetched from the main memory.

7. The delay between the time a memory request is made and the time the data is accessed, measured in nanoseconds.

8. A type of computer memory that retains data even when power is not supplied, such as ROM or flash memory.

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