(idiomatic) To stop suddenly and unexpectedly.

(Britain, obsolete) A young woman employed at a factory cleaning and polishing cutlery.

(computing) A hardware or software device that stores a stream of data to be printed until a printer is ready to process it.

A neutral area, between hostile forces, designed to prevent hostilities. / (US) A transitional area between areas of different land use.

(chemistry) A solution, containing a buffer, that maintains a relatively constant pH

plural of buffer overflow

(computer security) The event when the amount of data sought to be added to a buffer exceeds the size of the buffer; generally resulting in a catastrophic error if this case has not been anticipated.

(computer graphics) A per-pixel buffer in graphics hardware, used to limit the area of rendering and to produce various other effects.

(computer graphics) 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.

plural of z-buffer