Gadgets vs. Gadget — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Gadgets and Gadget

Definitions

Gadgets➦

A small specialized mechanical or electronic device; a contrivance.

Gadget➦

A gadget is a mechanical device or any ingenious article. Gadgets are sometimes referred to as gizmos.

Gadgets➦

Plural of gadget

Gadget➦

A small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one

A variety of kitchen gadgets

Gadget➦

A small specialized mechanical or electronic device; a contrivance.

Gadget➦

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

Gadget➦

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?

Gadget➦

(informal) Any consumer electronics product.

Gadget➦

(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.

Gadget➦

(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.