Gadget

Quick meaning: Gadget is a noun meaning Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
2. (computer security) 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.
3. (computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
4. (glassblowing) 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.
5. (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.

Example Sentences

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?

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

Cory will find cool gadgets along the way that you can use against enemies or to solve puzzles.

Word Forms

• gadgets
• gadjet

Synonyms for gadget

Depending on context, synonyms include contraption, contrivance, doohickey, gizmo, widget, appliance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gizmo, widget, convenience, contraption, contrivance, appliance.

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