gadget

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noun

Plural noun:

gadgetsgadjet

1.
(obsolete)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.
He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.
That's quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?
3.
(informal)Any consumer electronics product.
4.
(computer security) 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.
A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
5.
(computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
We reduce an instance of 3-SAT to an instance of bird-flock-optimization, using a gadget that converts each conjunctive Boolean clause to a group of birds.
6.
(glassblowing) A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving a bullion while finishing the bowl.

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contraptioncontrivance doohickey gizmo widget

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. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from gâchette or gagée, or from the French family name Gaget, an industrialist who produced promotional gadgets in collaboration with the project to build the statue of Liberty.