What is "adapters"

Usage examples of "adapters".

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

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.