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BUFFERING

Specialty Definition: BUFFERING

DomainDefinition

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.

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Crosswords: BUFFERING

Specialty definitions using "BUFFERING": Bicarbonates, buffered write-throughfirst-in first-outGroup-Sweeping SchedulingPentium IIIstretched modetight-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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Commercial Usage: BUFFERING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Specifications for Identity and Purity of Buffering Agents, Salts Emulsifiers, Stabilizers, Thickening Agents Extraction Solvents Flavouring Agents S (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BUFFERING

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)61.54%8124,375
Noun (singular)15.38%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)15.38%2245,945
Noun (proper)7.69%1339,140
                    Total100.00%13N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: BUFFERING

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BUFFERING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: BUFFERING

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

буферизовать буферизация (spooling). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poliranje, glačanje (glazing, polishing). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

utilización de una substancia tampón, poder tampón (buffering power), amortiguamiento (absorption), almacenamiento temporal, acción amortiguadora. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

buffringsförmåga, buffring (spooling), buffertkapacitet (buffering power). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BUFFERING

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.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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