Buffer

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
2. isim A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
3. isim A boxer.

   “Such a buffer as Donnelly, / Ereland never again will see.”

4. sıfat Comparative form of buff: more buff.
5. isim A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid, such as by resisting a change in pH when an acid or alkali is added.
6. isim Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
7. isim A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.

   “1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act II, in The Mikado, and Other Plays, New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 42, https://archive.org/details/mikadootherplays00gilb The idiot who, in railway carriages, / Scribbles on window panes, / We only suffer / To ride on a buffer / In Parliamentary trains.”

8. isim The barrier placed at the end of the track to absorb the impact of a train that fails to stop.
9. isim An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
10. isim 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.
11. isim 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.
12. isim A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
13. isim A reserve of funds set aside for use only when adverse circumstances prevail.

    “I keep a savings buffer of three months' worth of living expenses.”

14. isim A gap that isolates or separates two things.
15. isim The chief boatswain's mate.

    “He decided to run for president of the POs' Mess against the Buffer, Chief Bosun's Mate Mal Crane, but the two had a face-to-face in his cabin one night in Narvik and sorted it out.”

16. fiil To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.

    “The electronic apparatus is designed to buffer up the sorted wagons in the sidings at a speed not exceeding 4.7 m.p.h.—a particularly important provision in this yard, with its substantial traffic in whisky.”

17. fiil To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.

    “Some games let you buffer jumps—if you hold the jump button mid-air, your character will jump as soon as they touch the ground.”

18. fiil To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.
19. fiil To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
20. isim A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.

    “Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents.”

21. isim A dog.

    “Who does not remember that adorable little dog, and that last Christmas season at Olympia, when the Whimmy we had all loved had been dead a month or so, and his buffer ran disconsolately round the circus, pining […]”

22. özel isim A surname