gadget

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A thing whose name cannot be remembered

   A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.

2. 2

   Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever…

   Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.

   • He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.
   • That's quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?
   • Cory will find cool gadgets along the way that you can use against enemies or to solve puzzles.
3. 3

   Any consumer electronics product.

   • From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.
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   1. 4

      A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to…

      A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.

      • A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
   2. 5

      A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another…

      A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.

      • We reduce an instance of 3-SAT to an instance of bird-flock-optimization, using a gadget that converts each conjunctive Boolean clause to a group of birds.
   3. 6

      A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass…

      A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving a bullion while finishing the bowl.

The neighborhood

• synonymcontraption
• synonymcontrivance
• synonymdoohickey
• synonymgizmo
• synonymwidget