clipboard
n.a small area on your computer screen where you can copy and move text or images. It acts like a temporary holding place for things you want to move to another spot.
n.a temporary storage area in a computer's memory used to hold data that has been cut or copied. It facilitates the transfer of data between different applications or locations within the same application.
“I copied the text to the clipboard so I could paste it later.”
“After selecting the paragraph, she right-clicked to copy the text to the clipboard before opening the new document.”
“Modern operating systems utilize a sophisticated clipboard manager that allows users to maintain a history of their most recent copied items, significantly improving efficiency during complex data entry tasks.”
From clip + board.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.