Usually means: Substances that stabilize pH levels.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. buffers: Merriam-Webster
  2. buffers: Collins English Dictionary
  3. buffers: Vocabulary.com
  4. Buffers, buffers: Wordnik
  5. buffers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. buffers: Wiktionary
  7. buffers: Dictionary.com
  8. buffers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Buffers (chemistry): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. buffers: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Buffers (electronics), buffers: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Buffers (chemistry), Buffers (electronics), Buffers: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. buffers: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  5. Buffers (chemistry), Buffers (electronics), buffers: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. buffers: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. buffers: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Buffer)

noun:  Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).
noun:  A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
noun:  A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
noun:  (slang, archaic, Ireland) A boxer.
noun:  Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.
noun:  (chemistry) 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.
noun:  (mechanics) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
noun:  (telecommunications) 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.
noun:  (rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
noun:  (rail transport) The barrier placed at the end of the track to absorb the impact of a train that fails to stop.
noun:  An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
noun:  (computing) 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.
noun:  (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
noun:  (finance) A reserve of funds set aside for use only when adverse circumstances prevail.
noun:  (figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
noun:  (UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
verb:  To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
verb:  (video games) To queue up (an input) so that it is performed immediately once it is possible.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, computing) To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.
verb:  (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
noun:  (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
noun:  A surname
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