rebuffer

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English

Etymology 1

From rebuff +‎ -er.

Noun

rebuffer (plural rebuffers)

  1. 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

From re- +‎ buffer.

Verb

rebuffer (third-person singular simple present rebuffers, present participle rebuffering, simple past and past participle rebuffered)

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