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| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | The resistance of a substance to an abrupt change in acidity or alkalinity. Source: European Union. (references) |
| This resistance to disturbance of acid-alkali balance. . of blood. . is called --. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Computing | Using input/output buffers to increase efficiency when data is transmitted to and from a central processor; The use of auxiliary storage as a buffer storage to reduce processing delays when transferring data between peripheral equipment and the processors of a computer(1). Source: European Union. (references) |
| The delaying and temporary storage of data in a data communications path. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | The power of a solution to resist changes in pH on addition of acid or alkali. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A spatial analysis function that creates an extension zone around a point, line or polygon by locating its boundaries at a user-defined distance from it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BUFFERING |
| Specialty definitions using "BUFFERING": Bicarbonates, buffered write-through ♦ first-in first-out ♦ Group-Sweeping Scheduling ♦ Pentium III ♦ stretched mode ♦ tight-buffered cable. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BUFFERING" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (buffering). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BUFFERING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "BUFFERING" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 61.54% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 15.38% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "BUFFERING": buffering memory ♦ buffering power. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BUFFERING": cloud-buffering, z-buffering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
buffering | 7 |
buffering double | 3 |
buffering capacity | 3 |
buffering z | 3 |
buffering double java | 2 |
buffering chain supply | 2 |
buffering solution | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BUFFERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bufring, bufferkapacitet (buffering power), buffering, stoedpudevirkning, stoedpudeevne, puffervirkning (buffering power), pufferevne, mellemlagring (spooling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bufferwerking, bufferen (buffer, buffering power, spooling), buffercapaciteit (buffering power). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puskurointi (buffering power, spooling), puskurikyky. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | zone tampon (buffer, buffer zone), utilisation d'une substance-tampon, u.d'un système-tampon, tamponner (buffer, bump), tamponnage, pouvoir tampon (buffering power), mise en mémoire tampon, mettre en mémoire tampon, action tampon, "tamponnage". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pufferung (buffering power). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρυθμιστική ενέργεια, προσωρινή αποθήκευση (differed copy), περιοριοθέτηση, παρασκευή ενός ρυθμιστικού διαλύματος, ροκαταχώρηση (spooling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bufferizzazione (spooling), tamponamento (collision, pile up, plugging, tamponage), potere tampone (buffering power), potere stabilizzatore (buffering power), mettere in memoria tampone, memorizzazione transitoria (spooling), azione tampone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | バッチ処理 (Bach, bad mark, bat, batch processing, batman, battery, batting, batting average, batting cage, batting center, batting order, batting practice pitcher, boat, buffalo, buffer, buffer stock, buffered, butting, having a time or schedule conflict, intruding on someone else's turf, vat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | バッファリング . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ufferingbay buffering, utilização de uma substância tampão, utilização de um sistema tampão, utilização de memórias tampão (spooling), poder tampão (buffering power), efeito tampão, armazenamento temporário, armazenamento em memória tampão, área de influência. (various references) буферизовать буферизация (spooling). (various references) poliranje, glačanje (glazing, polishing). (various references) utilización de una substancia tampón, poder tampón (buffering power), amortiguamiento (absorption), almacenamiento temporal, acción amortiguadora. (various references) buffringsförmåga, buffring (spooling), buffertkapacitet (buffering power). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rebuffing. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-f-f-g-i-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: buffier, buffing, firebug, gunfire, reffing, ruffing. | |
-3 letters: binger, buffer, burnie, feuing, figure, finger, fringe, griffe, niffer, rebuff. | |
-4 letters: begin, begun, being, binge, brief, brine, bring, bruin, buffi, burin, feign, fiber, fibre, fifer, finer, fungi, giber, grief, griff, gruff, infer, inure, reign, renig, ruffe, ruing, unrig, urine. | |
-5 letters: berg, bier, biff, bine, bren, brie, brig. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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