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How to pronounce “shim”
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Pronunciation guide for shim
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of shim with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 3 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- AI Impacts Design & Architecture
being good fit or fitness, trying to shim a table until it
- Definition summary
- A wedge.
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How to pronounce shim
AI Impacts Design & Architecture

being good fit or fitness, trying to shim a table until it
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “shim”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A wedge.
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- [Verb]
- To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.
- To adjust something by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field, after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose.
- (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
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