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11hit the buffers — British if a plan or activity hits the buffers, it fails to develop or is stopped. The talks hit the buffers after only 4 hours …
12hit the buffers — British informal to fail …
13rebuffs — buffers …
14Coupling (railway) — Knuckle (AAR Type E ) couplers in use ICE coupler A c …
15Coupling (railway) by country — generally list the main national system and exclude minor narrow gauge or industrial lines of short length. Modern EMU or DMU passenger vehicles are also excluded. Current couplings are not necessarily the same as historic couplings. Contents 1… …
16Theory of constraints — Part of a series of articles on Industry Manufacturing methods Batch production • Job production Continuous production Improvement method …
17Buffer strip — Contour buffer strips used to retain soil and reduce erosion. See also: Riparian zone restoration A buffer strip is an area of land maintained in permanent vegetation that helps to control air, soil, and water quality, along with other… …
18Riparian buffer — A riparian buffer is a vegetated area near a stream, usually forested, which helps shade and partially protect a stream from the impact of adjacent land uses. It plays a key role in increasing water quality in associated streams, river, and lakes …
19Multiple buffering — In computer science, multiple buffering is the use of more than one buffer to hold a block of data, so that a reader will see a complete (though perhaps old) version of the data, rather than a partially updated version of the data being created… …
20X Window selection — Contents 1 Active and passive selections 2 Selections 3 Clipboard 4 …
