buffer

Meaning of buffer

adjective
  1. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
  2. Unusually muscular. (also buffed or buffed out)
    The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
  3. Physically attractive.
noun
  1. Someone or something that buffs.
  2. A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
  3. 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. 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. A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
  7. 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. (international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
  10. A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
  11. A gap that isolates or separates two things.
verb
  1. To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
  2. To store data in memory temporarily.
  3. To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.

Information about buffer

Hyphenation of buffer

buf-fer

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • buffer is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

buffer synonyms

Meaning fender:

fender, cowcatcher, pilot

Meaning polisher:

polisher

Meaning buff:

buff

Meaning cushion:

cushion, soften

Translation of buffer

Anagrams of buffer

rebuff

Words that rhyme with buffer

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