Phrase Hound found 21 phrases and 5 compound words that contain buffers. The most common are listed below. Open buffers in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 21
- frame buffersplural of frame buffer: A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
- stencil buffersplural of stencil buffer: A per-pixel buffer in graphics hardware, used to limit the area of rendering and to produce various other effects.
- hit the buffersTo stop suddenly and unexpectedly.
- back buffersplural of back buffer: A buffer used to store graphics while they are being drawn, and later copied to the display in a single operation.
- buffers upthird-person singular simple present indicative of buffer up: To move (a rail vehicle) so that its buffers are touching the buffers of another rail vehicle.
- circular buffersplural of circular buffer: A data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end.
- direct buffersplural of direct buffer: A portion of native memory that is shared with Java and can be used for direct reads.
- G-buffersplural of G-buffer: A screen space representation of geometry and material information, generated by an intermediate rendering pass in deferred shading rendering pipelines.
- gap buffersplural of gap buffer: A dynamic array that allows efficient insertion and deletion operations clustered near the same location.
- pause buffersthird-person singular simple present indicative of pause buffer: To rapidly pause and unpause a video game to gain an advantage, such as planning inputs while the game is paused.
- printer buffersplural of printer buffer: A hardware or software device that stores a stream of data to be printed until a printer is ready to process it.
- ring buffersplural of ring buffer: A data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end.
- shadow buffersplural of shadow buffer: A texture buffer used in shadow mapping.
- volatility buffersplural of volatility buffer: A pool of capital or other financial instrument through which a person can reduce the impact of losses to their assets in the event of market unpredictability, especially in retirement.
- w-buffersplural of w-buffer: A kind of inverted z-buffer, storing inverse depth values, which has some advantages for interpolation and precision scaling.
- z-buffersplural of z-buffer: A buffer for the purpose of tracking the relative depths of different objects in a scene and determining which are closer to the observer than others.
- riparian buffersplural of riparian buffer: An area of vegetation around a body of water that gives benefits to the ecosystem in the body of water. It can provide shade, a food source, and a buffer against pollution from outside sources.
- hits the buffersthird-person singular simple present indicative of hit the buffers: To stop suddenly and unexpectedly.
- hitting the bufferspresent participle and gerund of hit the buffers
- non-direct buffersplural of non-direct buffer: A buffer whose underlying data is a byte array that is allocated in the Java heap area.
- track buffersplural of track buffer: A buffer onboard a secondary storage device (disk) used to temporarily hold data being read from or written to it.
Compound words 5
- cryobuffersplural of cryobuffer: A solution, which will not solidify on cooling, in which crystals may be grown at low temperature
- framebuffersplural of framebuffer: A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
- immunobuffersplural of immunobuffer: A buffer used in immunoaffinity binding
- prebuffersthird-person singular simple present indicative of prebuffer: To place into a buffer in preparation for later retrieval or playback.
- sidebuffersPlural of sidebuffer: A buffer mounted at the side, in particular on each side of each end of a rail vehicle.