gadget

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

Noun

 * 1)  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)  Any consumer electronics product.
 * 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.
 * 5) * Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125
 * A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.
 * A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: جِهَاز
 * Hijazi Arabic: جِهَاز
 * Armenian: գաջեթ
 * Azerbaijani: qadjet
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 小器具, 小工具, 小道具
 * Danish: gadget
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, , artefakto
 * Estonian: riistapuu
 * Finnish:, härpätin, , , , ,
 * French:
 * Galician: trebello,, fuchico, canxorna, estaribeque, , estriloxo, enxamiada, entemeñada, enteveada
 * Georgian: გაჯეტი, მოწყობილობა, ხელსაწყო
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: גאדג׳ט
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 小道具
 * Korean:, 가젯
 * Macedonian: направа, џиџе
 * Persian: ابزارک
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sardinian:
 * Logudorese: abbréddulu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сокоћало, геџет
 * Latin: sokoćalo, gedžet
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Tagalog: gadyet
 * Tajik: абзорак, гаҷет
 * Thai: แกดเจ็ต
 * Ukrainian:, , штуко́вина
 * Welsh: ,

Etymology
, itself of French origin.

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Noun

 * 1)  small device

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