gadget

1. 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?

   Apparat, Gadget, Gerät

   устро́йствоustrójstvo, га́джетgádžet, штуко́винаštukóvina

   при́стрійprýstrij, ґа́джетgádžet, штуко́винаštukóvyna

2. (informal)Any consumer electronics product.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

1. I love these gadgets.

   Обожнюю ці ґаджети.

   deIch liebe diese technischen Spielereien.

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2. I don't need expensive gadgets.

   Я не потребую дорогих гаджетів.

   ruМне не нужны дорогие гаджеты.

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3. What's your favorite non-electrical gadget?

   ruКакой у тебя любимый неэлектронный гаджет?

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4. What kind of gadget is that?

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5. Tom has lots of cool gadgets.

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