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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/
• (General American) IPA: /ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ɡæd͡ʒ.ət/
• ハイフネーション: gad‧get
• 韻: -ædʒɪt

名詞

gadget (plural gadgets)

1. (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
   • 1886, Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper:

     Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem., you know.

2. 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?

   • 2008, “Story Mode”, in Cory in the House: Instruction Booklet, Burbank, California: Disney Interactive Studios; Nintendo, page 8:

     Cory will find cool gadgets along the way that you can use against enemies or to solve puzzles.

3. (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
   • 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5:

     From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.

4. (computer security) 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.
   • Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125

     A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.

5. (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.

6. (glassblowing) 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.

別の表記

• gadjet

同意語

• contraption
• contrivance
• doohickey
• gizmo
• widget

派生語

Further reading

• gadget on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• dagget, tagged