Device for connecting electronics

Usage examples of adapter.

Or was she just a clever adapter of information gleaned from the syb she had appropriated?

Above the benches were old-fashioned gas and electrical outlets, the latter festooned untidily, and probably unsafely, with adapters and many plugs.

She walked up to the Professor to inquire whether the outlet plugs in his native land were standard or variable, and did he recommend any particular universal adapter, which she would really rather purchase in the States because, well, frankly, because she did not doubt they would be much more reliable.

They weren't going to open one of the yawning docking adapters for one man.

That was well enough: they needed the adapters for the microwave, too.

At 12:29, a neon lawn display featuring Santa Claus and his helpers short-circuited, shooting flames along the electrical cord to its inside terminus--a plug attached to a maze of adapters fueling a large, brightly lit Christmas tree and nativity scene--severely burning three children heaping tissue-wrapped presents on a glow-in-the-dark baby Jesus.

Over the years, though, the Library's technology had grown increasingly more sophisticated, to the point where a user could now live a book without having it filtered through actors, directors, adapters, or any other middlemen.

Mace kept his head down, pretending to be engrossed in cobbling together an improvised adapter to recharge his lightsaber from looted blasterpacks.

He engages the former into the latter, yanks out the safety pin, drops it, then slips the fully prepped and armed Grenade Projection Adapter, Ml, with its fruity payload, over the tube of the grenade launcher.

That gave us gravity-fed plumbing for the kitchen and the dormitory's first floor, complete with hot water, since it was only a matter of finding the right adapters to run the water through a heater.

Overwhelmed by all the people, Riker slippedinto an alcove off the thoroughfare and found him-self looking at a display case of travel accessories,such as adapters, guide books, and universal trans-lators.

The second brain, also silicon, upgraded the primary logic functions and extended working memory to roughly 10s bits, while the third brain extended the memory by another factor of 10, as well as providing the adapters, ports, and software for handling a wide variety of scanners, sensors, and data input devices, all necessary if the machine was to be able to move its intelligence from one body to another.

The Shuttle's docking with Station was more fun to watch, with intercuts between computer graphics of the converging spacecraft and the Station docking adapter making a slow geometric sense, the Shuttle flying up an invisible cone to its target, the black dots of the adapter's Space Visioning System which helped the computers bring the huge spacecraft together.

So Sneezy saw how an adapter could fit, and Harold rummaged something that would do out of the beach house's junk drawers, and with the help of the workthing they manhandled and wrestled it into shape, stepping carefully around the two grisly things on the floor .

After nerly thirty minutes America was hovering a mere ten feet from the docking adapter, held in place by the spaceplane's intricate station-keeping computers.