Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come fromFrenchgâchette orgagée, or from the French family name Gaget, an industrialist who produced promotional gadgets in collaboration with the project to build the statue of Liberty.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ɡædʒɪt/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/ɡæd͡ʒət/

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• Hyphenation:gad‧get
• Rhymes:-ædʒɪt

gadget (pluralgadgets)

1. (obsolete) Athing whosename cannot beremembered;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 agadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—justpro tem., you know.

2. Anydevice ormachine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.

   He bought a neat newgadget for shredding potatoes.

   That's quite a lot ofgadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?

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

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

4. (computing) Asequence ofmachine codeinstructions crafted as part of anexploit that attempts todivertexecution to amemorylocation chosen by theattacker.
   • Security > Red Hat > CVE Database > CVE-2019-1125

     A Spectregadget 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 constructingreductions.

   We reduce an instance of3-SAT to an instance of bird-flock-optimization, using agadget that converts each conjunctive Boolean clause to a group of birds.

6. (glassblowing) A spring clip attached to the end of apunty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving abullion while finishing the bowl.

• gadjet

• contraption
• contrivance
• doohickey
• gizmo
• widget

•  gadget on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• dagget,tagged

Borrowed fromEnglishgadget, itself of French origin.

• IPA^(key):/ɡa.dʒɛt/

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gadget m (pluralgadgets)

1. gadget

• truc
• machin

• “gadget”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishgadget.

• IPA^(key):/ˈɡad.d͡ʒet/^[1]
• Rhymes:-addʒet

gadget m (invariable)

1. gadget(small device)

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishgadget.

gadget n (pluralgadgeturi)

1. gadget

Borrowed fromEnglishgadget.

• Rhymes:-aʝet

gadget m (pluralgadgets)

1. gadget