Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - buffer
Buffer
buffer
1. n. & v. --n. 1 a a device that protects against or reduces the effect of an impact. b Brit. such a device (usu. one of a pair) on the front and rear of a railway vehicle or at the end of a track. 2 Biochem. a substance that maintains the hydrogen ion concentration of a solution when an acid or alkali is added. 3 Computing a temporary memory area or queue for data to aid its transfer between devices or programs operating at different speeds etc. --v.tr. 1 act as a buffer to. 2 Biochem. treat with a buffer. Phrases and idioms buffer State a small State situated between two larger ones potentially hostile to one another and regarded as reducing the likelihood of open hostilities. buffer stock a reserve of commodity to offset price fluctuations. Etymology: prob. f. obs. buff (v.), imit. of the sound of a soft body struck 2. n. Brit. sl. a silly or incompetent old man (esp. old buffer). Etymology: 18th c.: prob. formed as BUFFER(1) or with the sense 'stutterer'
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I. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1749 fellow, man, II. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: buff, verb, to react like a soft body when struck Date: 1835 any of various devices or pieces of material for reducing shock or damage due to contact, a means or device used as a cushion against the shock of fluctuations in business or financial activity, something that serves as a protective barrier: as, ~ state, a person who shields another especially from annoying routine matters, mediator 1, a substance capable in solution of neutralizing both acids and bases and thereby maintaining the original acidity or basicity of the solution, a temporary storage unit (as in a computer), ~ed adjective III. transitive verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: 1845 to lessen the shock of ; cushion, to treat (as a solution or its acidity) with a ~, to collect (as data) in a ~, IV. noun Date: 1854 one that buffs ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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