Buffer
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What is a buffer?
An example of a buffer:
•A place to fill in your last name on a
form where each character has one box. SMITH fills five boxes, GALLERDO
fills eight.
Techie Nomenclature: a “buffer is used loosely to refer to any area of memory where more than on piece of data are stored.