framebuffer
noun
framebuffer is a noun meaning “A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-M-E-B-U-F-F-E-R, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of framebuffer is framebuffers.
What does framebuffer mean?
noun
- 1
A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce framebuffer?
- UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-framebuffer.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of framebuffer
- framebuffers plural
- frame buffer
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is framebuffer?
Framebuffer appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Framebuffer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Framebuffer, Framepuffer |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does framebuffer come from?
From frame + buffer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).