Definitions for adapter

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adapter a·dapt·er

Spelling: [uh-dap-ter]

IPA: /əˈdæp tər/

Adapter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in adapter (aadeprt).

Definitions for adapter

noun

1. a person or thing that adapts.
2. a connector for joining parts or devices having different sizes, designs, etc., enabling them to be fitted or to work together. Also called plug adapter, adapter plug. a device that connects an electrical plug to an outlet that has a different plug shape: Also called AC adapter, power adapter. a device with a cord that plugs into an electrical outlet and functions as an external power supply for a small or portable electronic device, usually converting AC current to DC:
3. an accessory to convert a machine, tool, or part to a new or modified use.
4. Computers. expansion card. an external device containing the necessary circuitry to connect to or work with another device or system:

Origin of adapter

First recorded in 1795-1805; adapt + -er¹

Examples for adapter

This we should of course expect from an adapter of existing 'prophecies.'

Poems by Collin and Carpani, the adapter of the text, were presented to him.

The prism and eye-piece are then rotated together in the adapter.

Burton, indeed, hailed the adapter of Omar Khayyam as a "fellow Sufi."

Sometimes he takes his adapter with him to see these French plays.

The hand of the adapter, the interpolator and the reviser is unmistakably present.

Don't try to slide the adapter into the opening from the top.

But Assyria itself had been equally an adapter and intermediary.

These reveal Shakespeare undisguisedly as an adapter of plays by other hands.

Did the adapter of the fifth book sign his work in this indirect fashion?