Word Finder - adapters

definition

One who is capable of adapting to differing situations.

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He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership.

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One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.

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The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day.

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A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.

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He had an adapter that let him plug his phone into the car's cigarette lighter for power.

The metal is usually obtained from the flue-dust (produced during the first three or four hours working of a zinc distillation) which is collected in the sheet iron cones or adapters of the zinc retorts.

Versifiers and adapters from the French appeared also in Counts Adam and Joseph Teleki, Alexander Baroczi and Joseph Peczeli, known also as the translator of Young's " Night Thoughts."

Each retort is provided with two adapters, namely, a conical pipe of fire-clay, about 15 in.

The iron adapters are now slipped on, and left on for two hours, when, as a matter of experience, a considerable amount of zinc has gone out of the retort, the greater part into the fire-clay adapter, the rest into the iron cone.

As soon as the adapters have been cleaeed of their contents, they are replaced, and again left to themselves for two hours, to be once more emptied and replaced, &c. The complete exhaustion of the charge of a furnace takes about eleven hours.

The most celebrated of the Latin adapters is Phaedrus, a freedman of Augustus.

Dial-up adapters In addition to Ethernet adapters, Colasoft Capsa also works on dial-up adapters.

This has ranged from 4-way IDE adapters to keyboard interfaces for the Amiga tower wannabes.

I am now thinking about getting adsl modem with built-in wireless router and using wireless USB adapters for the desktop and the laptop.

These new phones feature built-in WiFi adapters, so you can instantly connect to any wireless network and make and receive Skype calls.

In addition, most adapters have their own graphics coprocessor for performing graphics calculations.

Each unit has a removable facia and can be sealed to IP66 with the use of appropriate glands, blanks or adapters.

You might need to investigate these if you have an old portable that doesn't have sockets for PCMCIA adapters.

Alternatively, you can purchase separately multiple USB port adapters to increase the number of USB compatible peripherals you can hook up to your computer.

They also have printer peripherals like printer servers and Bluetooth adapters.

Network adapters are fairly standard, but if you want a higher end one be prepared to pay a premium.

In the past, wireless adapters used a single antenna for input and a single antenna for output, resolving only one stream of each at a time, and improvements involved more powerful antennae for more efficient processing.

Klean Kanteen offers a line of accessories that includes bottle insulators, a wide variety of caps, nylon slings, bike cages, carabiners, and water filter adapters.

You can also purchase adapters for your current leaf blower if you already own one.

Older galvanized pipes with threaded openings may need adapters to work with your new fixture.

Two sided adapters that will help make copper, galvanized and PVC configurations work together will make your life easier as long as you don't run into other problems, like major oxidation.

Power adapters (both for local and travel use) may also be available.

The adapters house the prescription and generally clip in on the bridge area.

Both systems offer online gaming both wired and wireless (with additional adapters), though for both systems, using a wired connection will get you the best results.

There are also extras that go along with traditional cycling, such as replacement pads, pedal adapters, caps, t-shirts, and more.

Universal dock, plus adapters to make your iPod nano fit nice and snugly in the dock.

Custom attachments can also include, but are not limited to, ratchet style headgear, bracket adapters, goggle retainers or chin straps.