Definition of Adapter. Meaning of Adapter. Synonyms of Adapter

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Definition of Adapter

adapter
Adopter A*dopt"er, n. 1. One who adopts. 2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]
Adapter
Adapter A*dapt"er, n. 1. One who adapts. 2. (Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter.

Meaning of Adapter from wikipedia

- An adapter or adaptor is a device that converts attributes of one electrical device or system to those of an otherwise incompatible device or system....
- In computer hardware a host controller, host adapter or host bus adapter (HBA) connects a computer system bus which acts as the host system to other network...
- In rocketry, an adapter is a hollow cylindrical or conical segment which provides a sound aerodynamic and structural connection, either between rocket...
- An AC adapter or AC/DC adapter (also called a wall charger, power adapter, power brick, or wall wart) is a type of external power supply, often enclosed...
- In software engineering, the adapter pattern is a software design pattern (also known as wrapper, an alternative naming shared with the decorator pattern)...
- Look up adapter or adaptér in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Adapter or adaptor may refer to: Adapter a device used to match the physical or electrical...
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- card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card...
- The Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's...