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buffer

/buhf-er/US // ˈbʌf ər //UK // (ˈbʌfə) //

缓冲区,缓冲器,缓冲,缓冲区内

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an apparatus at the end of a railroad car, railroad track, etc., for absorbing shock during coupling, collisions, etc.
    • : any device, material, or apparatus used as a shield, cushion, or bumper, especially on machinery.
    • : any intermediate or intervening shield or device reducing the danger of interaction between two machines, chemicals, electronic components, etc.
    • : a person or thing that shields and protects against annoyance, harm, hostile forces, etc., or that lessens the impact of a shock or reversal.
    • : any reserve moneys, negotiable securities, legal procedures, etc., that protect a person, organization, or country against financial ruin.
    • : buffer state.
    • : Ecology. an animal population that becomes the prey of a predator that usually feeds on a different species.
    • : Computers. a storage device for temporarily holding data until the computer is ready to receive or process the data, as when a receiving unit has an operating speed lower than that of the unit feeding data to it.
    • : Electronics. a circuit with a single output activated by one or more of several inputs.
    • : Chemistry. any substance or mixture of compounds that, added to a solution, is capable of neutralizing both acids and bases without appreciably changing the original acidity or alkalinity of the solution.Also called buff·er so·lu·tion. a solution containing such a substance.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Chemistry. to treat with a buffer.
    • : to cushion, shield, or protect.
    • : to lessen the adverse effect of; ease: The drug buffered his pain.
    • : Digital Technology. to temporarily save before actively accessing it so that it can be loaded at a rapid or uniform rate: Give the app time to buffer the audio when you are streaming music.You’ll get a load screen while the game buffers those high-resolution graphics.

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Examples

  • School connection is a protective factor for students — “a buffer for stress,” she said.

  • It’s not gathering feedback on whether you’d support a sea wall versus expanding a natural wetland as an ocean buffer.

  • In Washington, the smallest buffer allowed on a stream that provides drinking water is 50 feet from either bank, and the state requires that additional trees be left behind up to 200 feet from the water.

  • A tree buffer along Old Georgia Highway 3, however, obscured his view of the coal ash ponds on site.

  • Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said that “no one can do anything other than go to and from voting” in the 100-foot buffer.

  • He carried around a hundred pounds too many most of his life, a great buffer of flesh between himself and the world.

  • The buffer zone would protect civilians, Syrian rebels, and Kurds against ISIS assaults.

  • Levin is calling for a Turkish buffer zone inside Syria, protected by a U.S.-led no fly zone.

  • The Kurds entered a buffer zone on the Turkish border and in the melee at least four protestor were wounded.

  • And the Americans are currently ruling out boots on the ground in Syria or buffer zones.

  • The Indian agent is the local buffer between contending forces.

  • This arrangement acts as a buffer to take up the end thrust on the shaft caused by the varying pressure of the wind on the wheel.

  • I took my seat beside him, while the lady, a useful little buffer state, was squeezed in between the two men of wrath at the back.

  • She sketches out a letter to be written to the lady who is at present a buffer-state between the dried man and the parched women.

  • His letters make a soft buffer, a foolish pretty window, a tinted veil between me and my too-harsh actualities.