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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gadget
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
labour-saving device/gadget/equipment etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electronic
▪ It lets the youngsters use special electronic gadgets which bounce light around.
▪ I don't have, and never have had, a video machine or electronic gadget in my pub.
new
▪ She was short and fat with a braying voice, boasting of some new gadget for the household or bullying her husband.
▪ With luck, scientists say, some of the new gadgets could change our view of the universe.
▪ But people like seeing new machines and gadgets.
▪ Two fancy new gadgets enabled these grandfather clocks to keep nearly perfect time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A sales assistant was demonstrating several kitchen gadgets to a crowd of shoppers.
▪ He showed her several electronic gadgets, such as a watch that you can use as a phone.
▪ It's a clever little gadget which you can use to cut vegetables into attractive shapes.
▪ kitchen gadgets such as avocado peelers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the instructions for our gadgets were nowhere to be found.
▪ Electronic gadgets that will let people order food and drinks from their seats.
▪ It lets the youngsters use special electronic gadgets which bounce light around.
▪ Nowadays I am obsessional about checking the gadget, particularly as I use it infrequently.
▪ One woman used her shoulder and trunk muscles to feed herself via a gadget with a spoon attached to a ball-bearing swivel.
▪ The Renault 25 was big on gadgets.
▪ This prevented the firm selling the gadget.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gadget

1886, gadjet (but said by OED corespondents to date from 1850s), sailors' slang word for any small mechanical thing or part of a ship for which they lacked, or forgot, a name; perhaps from French gâchette "catch-piece of a mechanism" (15c.), diminutive of gâche "staple of a lock." OED says derivation from gauge is "improbable."

Wiktionary
gadget

n. 1 (context obsolete English) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey 2 any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated. 3 (context slang English) a consumer electronics product

WordNet
gadget

n. a device that is very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gizmo, gismo, widget]

Wikipedia
GADGET

GADGET is a free software for cosmological N-body/ SPH simulations written by Volker Springel at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. The name is an acronym of "GAlaxies with Dark matter and Gas intEracT". It is released under the GNU GPL.

Gadget (disambiguation)

A gadget is a small technological object such as a device or an appliance that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty.

Gadget may also refer to:

Gadget (computer science)

In computational complexity theory, a gadget is a subset of a problem instance that simulates the behavior of one of the fundamental units of a different computational problem. Gadgets are typically used to construct reductions from one computational problem to another, as part of proofs of NP-completeness or other types of computational hardness. The component design technique is a method for constructing reductions by using gadgets.

traces the use of gadgets to a 1954 paper in graph theory by W. T. Tutte, in which Tutte provided gadgets for reducing the problem of finding a subgraph with given degree constraints to a perfect matching problem. However, the "gadget" terminology has a later origin, and does not appear in Tutte's paper.

Usage examples of "gadget".

There was handmade pottery bought on consignment from local artisans, selected cookware and bakeware, and hard-to-find kitchen gadgets.

We completely short the input, et cetera, but how do we make with a gadget like that?

That done, the darkish men gathered the discarded shafts that Felber was sending away, along with all stray parts and gadgets.

There were dozens of levers and gadgets that had to be hooked up, and Durand put them in place so rapidly that there was no chance to follow his movements.

I clicked the dial past an endless array of gadgets like Veg-O-Matics and Ginzo knives and tummy-slimmers.

Greco began to putter with gleamy, glassy gadgets on one of the tables and I watched him with, I admit, a certain amount of suspicion.

El Greco began to putter with gleamy, glassy gadgets on one of the tables and I watched him with, I admit, a certain amount of suspicion.

Gadgets wished he had brought a can of methyl isocyanate, known by its trade name of Bhopalocan.

Another sported gadgets like lead water pipes all jumbled and crumbling.

She was fumbling in her purse for her key ring with its remote keyless entry gadget when a pleasant voice stopped her in her tracks.

The boy, agog from the TV, comes romping in squawking with greed for another new thing that this time just has to be bought, to take him out of this good old world fast gadgets and the clothes to go with them, so he will walk in happiness for all of his days.

The basic flight controls, stick, rudders and throttle he could handle adequately, Jmt he had trouble with trim tabs and essential gadgets in more remote corners of the cockpit.

Someone with an inventive turn of mind had rigged a gadget, powered by a float bobbing in the water, which at irregular intervals jerked a clanging sheet of metal against the main boiler to discourage fishingbirds from perching there and smutching the reflectors with their droppings.

Once this gadget, which was called a toposcope, was adjusted to their satisfaction, the monitors left, and the room began to fill with the gray gas.

Jen had fitted it with a gadget that moved the detector rapidly upward at the moment of closest approach of an upbound carrier, to increase the length of time available for getting a measurement of radioactivity.