Usually means: Temporary storage for data handling.
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General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. buffer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. buffer, buffer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buffer, buffer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buffer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buffer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Buffer, buffer: Wordnik
  7. buffer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Buffer, Buffer: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. buffer: Wiktionary
  10. buffer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. buffer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. buffer: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. buffer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Buffer (GIS), Buffer (application), Buffer (chemistry), Buffer (computer science), Buffer (navy), Buffer (optical fiber), Buffer (programming), Buffer (rail transport), Buffer (telecommunication), Buffer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Buffer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. buffer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. buffer: Rhymezone
  18. buffer, buffer (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Buffer: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. buffer: Free Dictionary
  21. buffer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. buffer: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. buffer: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. buffer: Dictionary.com
  25. buffer: Online Etymology Dictionary

Art dictionaries Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. buffer: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Buffer: Health & Beauty Glossary
  3. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business dictionaries Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. BUFFER: Accounting Glossary
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Buffer (disambiguation), buffer: Legal dictionary
  5. Buffer: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing dictionaries Computing (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. buffer: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. buffer: Netlingo
  3. Buffer, buffer: CCI Computer
  4. buffer: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. Buffer: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  6. Karbo's Dictionary (No longer online)
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  8. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Buffer (chemistry), Buffer (disambiguation), buffer: Encyclopedia

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  3. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  4. Buffer (chemistry), Buffer (disambiguation), buffer: Medical dictionary
  5. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buffer: Idioms

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  2. Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)
  3. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang dictionaries Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. buffer, buffer, buffer, buffer, buffer, buffer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Buffer: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. buffer: Urban Dictionary

Tech dictionaries Tech (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. buffer: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. buffer: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Beauty Glossary (No longer online)
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  6. Explosives (No longer online)
  7. Buffer: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  8. Buffer: Beauty & Health Glossary
  9. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  11. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  12. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  14. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  15. BUFFER: Power Engineering
  16. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)
  17. Aquarium (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).
noun:  A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
noun:  A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
noun:  (slang, archaic, Ireland) A boxer.
noun:  (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
noun:  (computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
noun:  Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.
noun:  (mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
noun:  (telecommunications) 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.
noun:  (rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
noun:  (rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
noun:  An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
noun:  (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
noun:  (figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
noun:  (UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
verb:  To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
verb:  (video games) To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.
verb:  (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
verb:  (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
noun:  (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
noun:  A surname

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