Usually means: Temporary space for jotting notes.
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  1. scratchpad: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scratchpad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scratchpad: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scratchpad, scratchpad: Wordnik
  5. scratchpad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scratchpad: Wiktionary
  7. scratchpad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. scratchpad: Dictionary.com
  9. Scratchpad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. scratchpad: Rhymezone
  11. scratchpad: FreeDictionary.org
  12. scratchpad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. scratchpad: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scratchpad: Encyclopedia

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

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