gadget
See also: Gadget
English edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée, or from the French family name Gaget, an industrialist who produced promotional gadgets in collaboration with the project to build the statue of Liberty.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡædʒɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡæd͡ʒət/
Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: gad‧get
- Rhymes: -ædʒɪt
Noun edit
gadget (plural gadgets)
- (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
- 1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper:
- Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem., you know.
- 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?
- (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
- 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5:
- 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.
- (computing) 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.
- Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125
- A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
- Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125
- (computer science) 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.
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any device or machine
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Further reading edit
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English gadget, itself of French origin.
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gadget m (plural gadgets)
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Further reading edit
- “gadget”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English gadget.
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gadget m (invariable)
- gadget (small device)
References edit
- ^ gadget in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English gadget.
Noun edit
gadget n (plural gadgeturi)
Declension edit
Declension of gadget
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) gadget | gadgetul | (niște) gadgeturi | gadgeturile |
genitive/dative | (unui) gadget | gadgetului | (unor) gadgeturi | gadgeturilor |
vocative | gadgetule | gadgeturilor |
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- Rhymes: -aʝet
Noun edit
gadget m (plural gadgets)
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