What is the meaning of Buffer?

Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).

  1. A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
  2. A machine for polishing shoes and boots.

A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.

A machine for polishing shoes and boots.

A boxer.

Comparative form of buff: more buff.

Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

  1. A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid, such as by resisting a change in pH when an acid or alkali is added.
  2. Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
  3. A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
  4. A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
  5. The barrier placed at the end of the track to absorb the impact of a train that fails to stop.
  6. An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
  7. A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
  8. A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
  9. A reserve of funds set aside for use only when adverse circumstances prevail.

    A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid, such as by resisting a change in pH when an acid or alkali is added.

    Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.

    A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.

    A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.

    The barrier placed at the end of the track to absorb the impact of a train that fails to stop.

    An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.

    A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.

    A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.

    A reserve of funds set aside for use only when adverse circumstances prevail.

    A gap that isolates or separates two things.

    The chief boatswain's mate.

    To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.

    1. To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.

      To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.

      To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.

      To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.

      A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.

      buffer

      a buffer for storage

      a buffer, margin for safety

      a buffer (device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them)

      buffer

      buffer (memory for temporary storage)

      to blow

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      Source: wiktionary.org