Gadgety vs. Gadget — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Gadgety and Gadget
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Gadgety
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.
Gadgety
(informal) Characterised by gadgets; hi-tech in a gimmicky way.
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.
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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.
Gadget
A device that is very useful for a particular job
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