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  • n  (computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information

  • Einstein's scratchpad theorems broke through the thought barriers of knowledge and rewrote the basic scientific law of the universe.
  • Dulles sat opposite, with only a clean scratchpad at his place.
  • One day Dulles got out his yellow scratchpad and pencil and wrote out a draft of what he called "A United States Declaration on the Middle East.

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