The word 'scratchpad' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a piece of paper or other surface used for making quick notes or calculations without much effort. For example: "I always keep a scratchpad with me in case I need to jot down an idea or do some quick calculations."
The job entailed cutting a single sheet of paper from a scratchpad that Kohl had bought at a CVS into a painstaking rendering of the façade of the Meehans' Greenwich Village townhouse, adorned with mementos of their life together and tiny figures representing their six grandchildren.
That's because rumination is largely rooted in working memory, a kind of mental scratchpad that allows us to "work" with all the information stuck in consciousness.
Many capable, hard-working students perform poorly on exams because they've overtaxed their "working memory" — the mental scratchpad on which we combine information from our long-term memory with the specifics of the problem in front of us, in the service of finding a solution.
And the scratchpad feature, where you can solve a problem before offering your answer, is nicely done.
Quick Calls Djay ($20 for iPad) turns the device into a scratchpad using songs from your library.
6. Update your cat's facilities If you bought your cat a scratchpad when it was a kitten, it wants a bigger one now.
Taking note You know you've made it when your scratchpad is Asprey's flip-top version in sterling silver.
The I.B.M. memory, called embedded dynamic random access memory, or eDRAM, can be used as a sort of simple scratchpad or temporary storage unit that speeds operations by keeping data inside a microprocessor for reuse while it is being processed.
The company is positioning the Boogie Board as a green alternative to paper scratchpads and note boards, ideal for parents to leave notes on the fridge, for nurses to keep patient notes and teachers to write lesson plans.
But as scratchpads for figuring out, on any reasonable time scale, what you really think about policy, ad hoc models like IS-LM and Mundell-Fleming are vastly superior.
The larger system includes the huge database, the memory (scratchpads) containing intermediate states, and the instructions the complete system that is required for answering the Chinese questions.
