buffers

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.

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.

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