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adaptor

n. (alternative form of adapter English)

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adaptor

n. device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible [syn: adapter]

Usage examples of "adaptor".

We had to load up on adaptor fittings and interface routers and use gas and liquid fluidic components.

But he is not ready to tell Botkin or Koss the wildest of his suspicions: the double helix somehow codes not only for its own messenger, but also for the elusive adaptor, the ribosome assembly line, and all the enzymes needed to recognize the adaptor, affix the amino acids, promote the growing chain, and trim the finished proteins.

Max extended an adaptor to the exposed fluidics systems on which he and Bollux had been working prior to planetfall.

Extending his rodlike adaptor arm as far as it would go, Max found his goal just out of reach.

In desperation Max tried to push his adaptor arm out even farther and nearly damaged himself.

As Bollux sat heavily into the acceleration chair, Max extended an adaptor, the one Chewbacca had repaired after the encounter with the slavers.

Anything stood a little apart and watched in silence as they passed a field containing dead adaptor toys like himself.

She had had the foresight to bring with her an adaptor plug for her hair dryer and later she blamed the noise the dryer was making for masking the sound of anyone knocking on her door.

The translator, the adaptor, is information-rich, determined, locked in.

Outside, in the warehouse of time, the adaptor I look for must bridge the paradoxical equivalence of message and notch, caprice and complexity, theme and variation.

He thanks her obliquely but gratefully by consulting her on the adaptor notion.

The thing the adaptor molecule has for billions of years tried to articulate will, in the last click of the second hand, be channeled into massive habitat clearance, would-be property improvements, trillion-dollar toxicity, terminal annihilation.

They are on their own, lost, lost to this obscene place, a place larger than anyone can safely care for, the place his carefully isolated adaptor molecules locate and leave him to.

Yuuzhan Vong warrior casually walked out of the compound, wearing his starfish breathing adaptor, for he could not bring himself to trust the mechanical breathing apparatus of the enviro-suits.

She plucked it from his fingers and datavised her systems memory core for appropriate electronic module specifications and adaptor programs.