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🛡️ Protected by barrier 💾 Temporarily stored ⚗️ pH stabilized
buffered

buffered

4.4
Held in temporary memory to keep audio or video playing without stops
  • adjective
  • /ˈbʌfərd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : almacenado en búfer
  • The video streamed smoothly because it was buffered in advance to prevent interruptions.

Examples

  • So here's a graph of to see how both the unbuffered and buffered version performed with the number of S scaling with the number of SPU's.

  • Let me make this all a little bit smaller so I can fit it on one line, private buffered reader.

  • So they have to be buffered and I knew that.

  • But I can use like string CPI and the destination can be buffered and the source can be, you know, user input, right?

  • So there's the buffered repository tree.

  • The interesting challenge there online, especially for content creators, is that you're inherently buffered away from the problem.

  • I have a bit of a theme going on here matching blue heat spreaders from some ancient Micron fully buffered dims from back in the day.

  • When running the application, the data is buffered to ensure a consistent flow and minimal delay.

  • To enhance performance, the system uses buffered memory to store data temporarily before processing.

Compounds

buffered aspirin
3.7

A pain reliever coated to protect the stomach and reduce stomach upset

How Buffered

buffered
  • Specialized
4.4
exposed
1 3.4

Surface Forms

buffered positive

Morphology

buffered = buffer (semi-transparent) = buffer + ed

Morphologically transparent as 'buffer' + -ed, but the meaning requires technical knowledge of the computing sense of 'buffer'.

Etymology

Buffered keeps the image of a cushion: the same root as buffet ('to strike') suggests taking the hit, but here the hit is data flow. In computing, buffered means information is kept in a temporary 'cushion' or store so play or transfer does not stop.