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Adapter   Listen
noun
Adapter  n.  
1.
One who adapts.
2.
(Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Adapter" Quotes from Famous Books



... apparatus which will supply the enormous power necessary to nullify the vibrations of the fourth dimensional barrier," Arlok explained. "It is a condenser and adapter of the cosmic force that you call the Millikan rays. In Xoran a similar apparatus is already set up and finished, but the Gate can only be opened by simultaneous actions from both sides of the barrier. That is why I was sent on my long ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various

... English verse was to attest his admiration of Machault, whose fame Froissart and Froissart's imitations had brought across from the French Court to the English; and when Gransson, who served King Richard II as a squire, was extolled by his English adapter as the "flower of them that write in France." But as yet Chaucer's own tastes, his French blood, if he had any in his veins, and the familiarity with the French tongue which he had already had opportunities of acquiring, were ...
— Chaucer • Adolphus William Ward



Words linked to "Adapter" :   adaptor, transcriber, orchestrator, display adapter, adapt, arranger, musician, device



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