Meaning of Gadget | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
   obsolete
2. Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.
3. Any consumer electronics product.
   informal
4. 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.
5. A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
6. 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.

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Examples

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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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