buffer

IPA: bˈʌfɝ

Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).
A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
(chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
(computing) 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.
Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.
(mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
(telecommunications) 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.
(rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
(rail transport) 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.
(politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
(figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
(UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
(colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
A surname

To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
(video games) To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.
(computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
(chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.

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