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a polite little cushion that absorbs chaos so you don't have to feel it.
means A protective zone or temporary store that sits between two things to absorb shocks, reconcile differences in speed, or keep them from colliding.
from From the verb 'buff' — to deaden or soften a blow — itself probably imitative, echoing the dull 'puff' sound of a muffled impact. A 'buffer' was first the cushioning thing that took the hit, like the sprung pads on railway carriages that absorbed the clash when cars coupled. Computing borrowed the word in the 20th century for a holding space that smooths the jolt between fast and slow parts of a machine.
- video lifeline
- Streams preload ahead so playback survives network hiccups.
- chemistry calm
- Buffer solutions resist pH swings against added acid
- your blood
- Bicarbonate buffers keep human pH near 7.4
- spinning circle
- The dreaded loading icon means a buffer ran dry
- memory danger
- Buffer overflows are a classic software exploit vector
buffer state of thailand — only southeast asian country never colonized, maintained independence between british and french colonial territories
buffer zone cyprus — un-patrolled demilitarized zone separating north and south cyprus since 1974