What is "buffered"

Usage examples of "buffered".

He's going to get the shot-effect through that generator's field -- attenuated, buffered.

He's going to get the shot-effect through that generator's field -- attenuated, buffered.

The brood mind floated weightless in its tank, held in place by buffered carbon rods.

The brood mind, however, was all central nervous system, a thinly buffered sac of viscous fluids about ten meters wide.

Prior to the conference, Lunzie had buffered Kai and Varian and now she snapped them out of it.

The ribbon and its fluids as well as the encasing tube buffered the embryos with more invulnerability against the rigors of space travel than had they been carried in a natural womb.

Takeoff was under minimum thrust, not that the triply buffered embryos could suffer damage had she blasted off with all power, but Helva preferred to take no unnecessary chances and there was plenty of time to reach Nekkar in Bootes' sector.

Metamorphically, Damia buffered Afra and you two cushioned her even as she blocked and destroyed Sodan.

You might be ten levels underground, buffered by plascrete a meter thick, but the resonances cannot be" -- he paused, averted his face, searching for the precise word -- "escaped.

The Captain was flatteringly deferential so Killashandra nodded as he made his points, and frowned wisely at the print-out as if she knew what she was seeing Fortunately the bridge was buffered against crystal noise as the rest of the ship was not, giving her a respite from the sound.

He spent a lot of time on his belly buffered by the softest material Kamiton's quarters contained since his back had been lashed by nerve whips.

In an odd way, she felt some of the pain easing, as if he had buffered it with his big, hard body.

The tumult of moving, with its mingled moments of hilarity and frustration, and her pure physical exhaustion from so much work, had buffered her somewhat from her thoughts, but there were still far too many moments when she wished she had never found out the truth about him, that the hurt and anger would all just go away.

With that in mind, she had packed the computer in its protective case, then further buffered it in the duffel with her meager supply of clothing.

The damage profile equated to that caused by plasma fire, and - from the lack of obvious patterning - either an enormous plasma event very far away or plasma fire - possibly fusion-sourced - much closer but buffered in some way.