gadget
/ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/ noun C1- 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?
- Any consumer electronics product.
- 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 technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
- 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.
Plural gadgets
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