scratchpad

English

Etymology

scratch +‎ pad.

Noun

scratchpad (plural scratchpads)

A pad of paper for preliminary notes or sketches or writings, etc.
(computing, in transaction processing systems) A piece of temporary memory to hold details of a current conversation, usually scratchpad memory.

Hypernyms

pad

Translations

pad of paper

Bulgarian: бележник (bg) m (beležnik)
Catalan: bloc de notes m
Finnish: muistilehtiö
French: bloc-notes (fr) m
German: Notizblock (de) m, Schmierblock m

in computing

French: bloc-notes (fr) m

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