How to pronounce “gadget”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
• Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.
• (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
• (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.
• (computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
• (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.

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