buffer

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  1. noun One that buffs, especially a piece of soft leather or cloth used to shine or polish.
  2. noun A buffing wheel.
  3. noun Something that lessens or absorbs the shock of an impact.
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  • Flatly stated, a buffer is an abstraction, an area of memory in which some type of text or data will be stored. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 15 -- The Hole
  • Reverting: revert-buffer, and how to customize what it does. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • Programmers should adhere to the following rules when allocating and managing their application's memory: Double check that your buffer is as large as you specify. —  doggdot.us
  • The tools provide the distance to the nearest obstacle stored in the Z-buffer, as well as the Voronoi boundaries, Voronoi vertices and weighted Voronoi graphs extracted from the frame buffer using continuation methods. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We need a wall ... and we need to do like the good old days and annex their northern tier of states as a buffer area (without the welfare goodies for them somehow). —  Latest Articles
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  1. Probably from obsolete buff, to make a sound like a soft body being hit, of imitative origin.

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  1. from buff + -er.
  2. from Middle English buffere, from *buffen, boffen, stutter, stammer: see buff, v., and cf. buffard.
  3. from buff, v., + -er.
 

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