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Buffer (noun)
Someone or something that buffs.
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Buffer (noun)
A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
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Buffer (noun)
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.
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Buffer (noun)
(mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
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Buffer (noun)
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.
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Buffer (noun)
A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
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Buffer (noun)
The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
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Buffer (noun)
An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
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Buffer (noun)
A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
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Buffer (noun)
A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
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Buffer (noun)
A gap that isolates or separates two things.
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Buffer (verb)
To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
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Buffer (verb)
To store data in memory temporarily.
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Buffer (verb)
To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
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Puffer (noun)
Someone or something that puffs.
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Puffer (noun)
Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger.
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Puffer (noun)
A manually-operated inhaler.
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Puffer (noun)
A train; a locomotive, usually one that is steam-powered.
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Puffer (noun)
A Clyde puffer, a kind of small ship.
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Puffer (noun)
A car left idling to warm up, emitting steam from the rear.
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Puffer (noun)
An insulated puffy jacket, such as a down jacket.
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Puffer (noun)
A person who gives exaggerated praise to a product, literary work, etc.
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Puffer (noun)
One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
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Puffer (noun)
An alchemist; so named from their constant attendance to the bellows of their furnaces.
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Puffer (noun)
The common, or harbour, porpoise.
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Puffer (noun)
A kier used in dyeing.
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Puffer (noun)
A soffietta.
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Puffer (noun)
A finite pattern that moves like a spaceship but leaves a trail of debris.