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rebuffer - What does it mean?

Definition of 'rebuffer'

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en-noun)
  • One who, or that which, rebuffs.
  • * 2001 , Leonard Sweet, Soultsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture
  • One of the church's great roles is as the great dissenter of every age, the bearer of unwelcome truths, the rebuffer of the wisdoms of the world.

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (computing) To buffer (data) again.
  • * 2005 , Stephen B. Weinstein, The multimedia Internet
  • This avoids client-side buffer underflows and rebuffering interruptions.

    Similar to 'rebuffer'

    repaper, reviver, revivor, repaver