buffer
缓冲区,缓冲器,缓冲,缓冲区内
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- : 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.
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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.