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Plural of buffer

regular plural

The plural of buffer is buffers.

Forms of buffer

Singularbuffer /ˈbʌfə/
Pluralbuffers
Countablecountable

Buffers in a sentence

  • Then, with a shock like a thousand goods trains crashing into a thousand pairs of buffers, the lips of rock closed.1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 14, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998
  • The train hit the buffers with a great shock.From the entry shock
  • Insoluble antigens were solubilized (refolded) from denaturating conditions (8 M urea) into buffers free of choatropic reagents.2015 August 10, Ralf Baumann et al., “A Subgroup of Latently Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infected Individuals Is Characterized by…. From the entry choatropic
  • A third protein, secretagogin shares significant homology to these buffers, but has only been characterized as a calcium sensor.2015 July 14, “Drosophila Cbp53E Regulates Axon Growth at the Neuromuscular Junction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry secretagogin
  • To enable them for bioapplications, a prerequisite is to make them dispersible in water and in saline buffers.2014 July 15, Jossana A. Damasco et al., “Size-Tunable and Monodisperse Tm3+/Gd3+-Doped Hexagonal NaYbF4 Nanoparticles with Engineered…. From the entry bioapplications

Meaning of buffer

  1. noun A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
  2. noun A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
  3. noun A boxer.

Full definition of buffer

Questions about the plural of buffer

What is the plural of buffer?
The plural of buffer is buffers.
Is buffer countable?
Buffer is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buffer (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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