scratchpad

noun

Etymology

From scratch + pad.

  1. inherited from *paddǭ — “toad
  2. inherited from *paddā
  3. inherited from padde
  4. inherited from pade
  5. compounded as scratchpad — “scratch + pad

Definitions

  1. A pad of paper for preliminary notes or sketches or writings, etc.

  2. A piece of temporary memory to hold details of a current conversation, usually scratchpad…

    A piece of temporary memory to hold details of a current conversation, usually scratchpad memory.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scratchpad. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA