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buffering, vbl. n.|ˈbʌfərɪŋ|
[f. buffer2 or prec. + -ing1.]
The action of bringing buffers into play; also, buffers collectively.
1898Times 6 Jan. 7 The buffering up of the wagons caused one of them to tilt over. 1928Daily Express 29 Dec. 9/4 The use of side buffering with screw couplings.
b. The action of buffer v. sense b. Also attrib. or as ppl. a.
1927Forestry I. 122 Plants in which the buffering agent has a reaction of a more favourable type..counteract this acid-buffering. 1932Fuller & Conard tr. Braun-Blanquet's Plant Sociol. vi. 175 Each soil has its characteristic pH value..which normally is little changed by external conditions... This property of tenaciously maintaining a ‘reaction constancy’ is called buffering.
c. The action of buffer v. sense c. Also attrib. or as ppl. a.
1936J. S. Huxley in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 82 The adjustment of such mutations..may occur entirely through recombination of existing modifiers, or, after a preliminary and partial buffering by this means, the final adjustment may have to wait. 1943Nature 16 Jan. 68/2 In genetical language, the integrated genotype acts as a buffering system..to limit the variation of the organism's response to environmental fluctuations. |