BUFFER
Buffer
A buffer is a part of the buffers-and-chain coupling system used on the railway systems of many countries, among them most of those in Europe, for attaching railway vehicles to one another.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Buffer (rail transport)
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buffer
Noun
- Someone or something that buffs.
- A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
- A portion of memory set aside to store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
- (mechanical) 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 metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
- An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
- A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
- A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
- A gap that isolates or separates two things.
Verb
- To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
- To store data in memory temporarily.
Adjective
buffer
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