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scratch pad

scratch pad is the alternative form of scratchpad.

Meaning of scratchpad

Noun

scratchpad (plural scratchpads)

  1. A pad of paper for preliminary notes or sketches or writings, etc.
  2. A piece of temporary memory to hold details of a current conversation, usually scratchpad memory.

Forms of scratch pad

pluralscratch pads

Questions about scratch pad

What is scratch pad the alternative form of?
Scratch pad is the alternative form of scratchpad.

Words near scratch pad in the dictionary

  1. scratch hits
  2. scratch made
  3. scratch one's head
  4. scratch one's own itch
  5. scratch out
  6. scratch pad
  7. scratch pads
  8. scratch paper
  9. scratch papers
  10. scratch plough
  11. scratch ploughs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scratch pad (page history and authors); scratchpad (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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