GADGET

appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget

(noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

gadget (plural gadgets)

(obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.

Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.

(slang) Any consumer electronics product.

(computing) 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.

Synonyms

• contraption

• contrivance

• doohickey

• gizmo

• widget

Anagrams

• dagget, tagged

Source: Wiktionary



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