Usually means: Small mechanical or electronic device.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word gadget:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gadget: Merriam-Webster
  2. gadget: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gadget: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gadget: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gadget: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gadget, gadget: Wordnik
  7. gadget: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gadget: Wiktionary
  9. gadget: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gadget: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gadget: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gadget: Dictionary.com
  13. gadget: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gadget: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GADGET, Gadget (computer science), Gadget (disambiguation), Gadget (machine instruction sequence), Gadget, The Gadget (novel), The Gadget: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. gadget: Rhymezone
  17. gadget, gadget (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gadget: FreeDictionary.org
  19. gadget: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Gadget: The Word Detective
  21. gadget: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Gadget: World Wide Words
  23. gadget: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. The gadget: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  25. gadget: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gadget: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gadget: Netlingo
  2. gadget: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GADGET: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gadget: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gadget: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gadget: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Gadget: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See gadgeteer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
noun:  Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.
noun:  (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
noun:  (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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