- 1小工具；小裝置（台灣也常直接說 gadget，尤其 3C 小物）
A gadget is a small tool or machine that does a job in a clever, handy way. Think of a kitchen timer that talks, a tiny light you clip on a book, or some small add-on for a phone — not a car, not a fridge, not a factory. People often say it with a smile: the thing is useful, maybe a bit extra. Though actually, shops now call almost any small electronic thing a gadget, even when it is not especially clever. It is everyday, informal English. In a careful report, “small device” or “tool” may sound safer.
core核心畫面
組成Nobody is sure. It showed up in print in 1886. People have guessed French gâchette (a small catch in a lock or gun), or a French family name Gaget tied to little give-away objects around the Statue of Liberty — but those are only guesses.
同家族的字
- gadgetrygadget + -ry: gadgets as a group, or a taste for them
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gadgetnoun/ɡæd͡ʒ.ɪt/
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obsoleteA thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
- 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?
- 3
informalAny consumer electronics product.
- 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.
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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.
- A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
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computercomputingengineeringA 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.
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artscraftsglassblowingA 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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。