autoflush

noun, verb — 2 senses

autoflush

noun

Etymology From auto- + flush.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Automatic flushing of a buffer.

  • If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page 715:
  • With autoflush off, you can easily start generating content, have your code throw it away halfway through, and then issue a redirect.2002, Dave Rolsky, Ken Williams, Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason:

autoflush

verb

Etymology From auto- + flush.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To flush (a buffer) automatically.

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