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Definition buffer

Etymology

Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (�make a dull sound when struck�)(mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (�blow�).

Noun

buffer (plural buffers)

  1. Someone or something that buffs.
    1. A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
  2. (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
  3. (computing) 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.
  4. (mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
  5. (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.
  6. (rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
  7. (rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
  8. An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
  9. (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
  10. (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
  11. (figuratively) A gap that isolates or separates two things.

Verb

buffer (third-person singular simple present buffers, present participle buffering, simple past and past participle buffered)

  1. To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
  2. (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
  3. (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.

Adjective

buffer

  1. comparative form of buff: more buff

Results 50 Words with the letters BUFFER

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14 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BUFFALOBERRIES 28
SUFFERABLENESS 26
13 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
SHUFFLEBOARDS 27
12 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BUFFALOBERRY 28
BUFFOONERIES 23
INSUFFERABLE 24
INSUFFERABLY 26
SHUFFLEBOARD 26
UNAFFORDABLE 25
11 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BREADSTUFFS 22
10 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BREADSTUFF 21
BUFFOONERY 23
FEBRIFUGES 22
SUFFERABLE 21
SUFFERABLY 23
UNBUFFERED 23
9 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BUFFERING 22
BUFFETERS 19
FEBRIFUGE 21
REBUFFING 22
8 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BLUFFERS 19
BUFFERED 19
BUFFETER 18
REBUFFED 19
7 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BLUFFER 18
BUFFERS 17
BUFFIER 17
REBUFFS 17
6 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BUFFER 16
REBUFF 16
5 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
RUFFE 12
4 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BUFF 14
RUBE 8
RUFF 11
3 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BUR 7
EFF 9
FER 6
FEU 7
FUB 10
FUR 7
REB 6
REF 6
RUB 7
RUE 4
URB 7
2 letter words with the letters BUFFER ↑
BE 5
EF 5
ER 2
FE 5
RE 2

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