buffering

And there are quite powerful long-term buffering mechanisms, such as described here:

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Sometimes a little oyster-shell grit or chalk will do for long-term buffering; it can be used together with the hexamine and can go on working after the hexamine is exhausted if the collection is poorly maintained.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.

"Still not there technologically," she said, referring to the buffering.

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And even his pauses - his "buffering" - allowed the audience to brace itself for the next onslaught.

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I know this is called buffering, but how can I avoid it?

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I know this is called buffering, but how can I avoid it?

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I know this is called buffering, but how can I avoid it?

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So even if you save energy by "buffering" the freezer with ice, you still pay to freeze it the first time.

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So even if you save energy by "buffering" the freezer with ice, you still pay to freeze it the first time.

Make Your Refrigerator Far More Efficient | Lifehacker Australia

In this instance, it is the "Author's Introduction" that displays that "buffering" that the subject. seems to demand.

Paley, "Apocalypse Without Millennium"