2. Verb. (third-person singular of buffer) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Buffers
1. buffer [v] - See also: buffer
Medical Definition of Buffers
1. Chemical systems that prevent change in the concentration of another chemical substance, e.g. Proton donor and acceptor systems serve as buffers preventing marked changes in hydrogen ion concentration (pH). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buffers
Literary usage of Buffers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"SEAT buffers G5. Seat buffers are small cushions of rubber used to prevent the
seat from ... Four buffers, or buttons, as they are sometimes called, ..."
2. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1848)
"As a first and introductory example, let us suppose a single carriage, weight 4
tons, having a pair of buffers in front, with a foot play to each, ..."
3. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1852)
"Acre, in the county of Middlesex, engineer, for certain improvements in railway
buffers.—[Sealed 29th May, 1851.] THE subject of this invention is an ..."
4. Physical Chemistry of Vital Phenomena: For Students and Investigators in the by Jesse Francis McClendon (1917)
"buffers and Solutions of Standard Hydrogen Imi Concentration The PH of water, or
solutions of neutral salts, or very dilute solutions of strong acids or ..."
5. Railway Appliances: A Description of Details of Railway Construction by John Wolfe Wolfe- Barry (1887)
"buffers have two duties to perform, the first is, that with the help of the ...
The second purpose of buffers is to mitigate the effects of collisions. ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"Country and the Continent; and this is a point that calls for special consideration,
because although centre-buffers are so unfamiliar in this country, ..."
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