Noun

(en noun)

Someone or something that buffs.

(chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.

(computing) A portion of memory set aside to store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.

(mechanical ) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.

(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.

(rail) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.

(rail) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.

An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.

(politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.

(colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.

* {{quote-book, year=1864-1865

, author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=Book The First, chapter 2 "The Man from Somewhere" citation , passage=Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1864-1865

, author=Charles Dickens , title=Our Mutual Friend , chapter=Book The First, chapter 10 "A Marriage Contract" citation , passage=Here, too, are Boots and Brewer, and the two other Buffers; each Buffer with a flower in his button-hole, his hair curled, and his gloves buttoned on tight, apparently come prepared, if anything had happened to the bridegroom, to be married instantly.}}

(figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.

* {{quote-news, year=2011

, date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title=England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight. }}

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) A pile.

#A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

#*(William Cowper) (1731-1800)

#*:But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack .

#A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

#:

#(lb) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.

#*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

#*:Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height.

#A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)

A smokestack.

*

*:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks .

(lb) In digital computing.

#A linear data structure in which the last data item stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.

#A portion of computer memory occupied by a stack' data structure, particularly (' the stack ) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.

#*1992 , Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications , p.47:

#*:When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack .

(lb) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.

(senseid)(lb) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.

(lb) A large amount of an object.

:

(lb) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.

(lb) The amount of money a player has on the table.

(lb) In architecture.

#A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.

#A vertical drainpipe.

A fall or crash, a prang.

(lb) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.

At Caltech, a lock, obstacle, or puzzle designed to prevent underclassmen from entering a senior's room during ditch day.