buffer

Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).

Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).

A boxer.

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

Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

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.

The underframe, which has been designed to take buffing loads of 200 tons both on the centre coupler and on the retractable side buffers, consists of two centre girders from which cantilevers project to support the solebars, which in turn carry the bodyside structure.

Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

Of course, I was not always right. I questioned the value of Crossrail (a scheme revived by Prescott after being scrapped by the Conservatives), suggesting wrongly that it may be "doomed to hit the buffers" […]. A dozen years later, I published my book on it, extolling the line's wonders. We are all allowed to change our minds.

Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.

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.

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

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.

To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.

To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.