The
clipboard is a
software facility used for short-term
data storage and/or
data transfer between documents or applications, via
copy and paste operations. It is most commonly a part of a
GUI environment and is usually implemented as an anonymous, temporary
data buffer, sometimes called the paste buffer, that can be accessed from most or all programs within the environment via defined
programming interfaces. A typical application accesses clipboard functionality by mapping user input (keybindings, menu selections, etc.) to these interfaces.