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  • noun A pad of paper for preliminary notes or sketches or writings, etc.
  • noun computing A piece of temporary memory to hold details of a current conversation, usually scratchpad memory.

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  • noun (computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information

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scratch +‎ pad.

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