gadget

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n. 小配件, 小玩意, 诡计

发音

UK /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/
US /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/
/ɡæd͡ʒ.ət/

词形变化

gadgets 复数 gadgets

别名

gadjet

教材释义与例句

名词

小玩意；小器具；小配件；诡计

释义与例句

n. C1
  1. 1.

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

    废旧
  2. 2.

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

    小器具

    小工具

    小道具

    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. 3.

    Any consumer electronics product.

    非正式
  4. 4.

    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. 5.

    A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.

    计算机 工程 数学

    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. 6.

    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.

    艺术

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

convenience contraption gizmo appliance contrivance gismo widget

上位词 1

device

下位词 4

injector gadgetry gimbal mod con

词源

Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French 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.

来源：wiktionary