ALL meanings of gadget
gadg·et
G g - noun gadget useful device 1
- noun gadget pointless novelty 1
- noun gadget a mechanical contrivance or device; any ingenious article. 1
- noun gadget A small mechanical device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one. 1
- countable noun gadget A gadget is a small machine or device which does something useful. You sometimes refer to something as a gadget when you are suggesting that it is complicated and unnecessary. 0
- noun gadget a small mechanical device or appliance 0
- noun gadget any object that is interesting for its ingenuity or novelty rather than for its practical use 0
- noun gadget (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey. 0
- noun gadget any small, esp. mechanical contrivance or device 0
- noun gadget Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated. 0
- noun gadget any interesting but relatively useless or unnecessary object 0
- noun gadget (Slang) Any consumer electronics product. 0
- noun gadget (computing) 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. 0