A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
A gap that isolates or separates two things.
A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
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.
A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
The chief boatswain's mate.
A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
To store data in memory temporarily.
Computer memory, usually volatile, that stores program and data values during operation and in which each word of memory may be directly (randomly) accessed.