buffer

• n. [メーター]緩衝装置; 緩衝装置, [車両]ショックアブソーバー
• vt.緩衝器

物体がパッドにぶつかる音を模した擬音。

buffer

buffer: Neither buffer ‘fellow’ [18] nor buffer ‘shock absorber’ [19] can be traced back with any certainty to a source, but the likeliest conjecture is that they both come (independently) from an obsolete English verb buff, which was probably originally (like puff) imitative of the sound of blowing or breathing out. The earliest recorded sense of this, in the late 13th century, was ‘stammer’, and so the human buffer may originally have been a ‘stammerer’. By the 16th century we find the verb being used in the sense ‘make the sound of something soft being hit’, which is a likely source of buffer ‘shock absorber’.

buffer (n.)

1835, agent noun from obsolete verb buff "make a dull sound when struck" (mid-16c.), from Old French bufe "a blow, slap, punch" (see buffet (n.2)); hence also "something that absorbs a blow."

buffer (v.)

1894, from buffer (n.). Related: Buffered; buffering.

1. Keep savings as a buffer against unexpected cash needs.

不測の事態に備えて蓄えておく。

2.Turkey and Greece were buffer states against the former Soviet Union.

トルコとギリシャは旧ソ連と反ソ連諸国の間の緩衝国である。

3.Support from family and friends acts as a buffer against stress.

家族や友人のサポートはストレスを緩和するのに役立ちます。

4.A little money can be a useful buffer in time of need.

緊急時には、わずかなお金で焦眉の急を解消することができます。

5.Now we need a vertex buffer .

頂点バッファが必要になりました。