0 present participle of buffer
1 to provide protection against harm
2 When a computer buffers information or buffers, it stores information temporarily in its memory while dealing with it or sending it.
Living in an environment with very little buffering capacity, ecological changes immediately had repercussions.
The analyses may be used to inform design proposals for buildings which seek to optimise the thermal buffering characteristics of atria.
The data also indicated a buffering role of attachment in moderating the effects of economic variation.
Conversely, genetic homozygosity would reduce the organism's metabolic buffering and thus render it susceptible to insult from environmental perturbations.
Without such buffering, major subsistence crises would probably have been more frequent.
The importance of reserve nutrients is attributed to the buffering of nutrient cycles by small but significant releases during mineral weathering.
In any case, our data suggests that the horizontal cell's buffering mechanisms could quite readily handle the glutamate-evoked calcium load.
In our cells, it is on the order of 10 s; indicative of a significant buffering capacity.
