Usually means: Device connecting different system components.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word adapter:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. adapter: Merriam-Webster
  2. adapter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adapter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adapter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adapter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adapter, adapter: Wordnik
  7. adapter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Adapter, adapter: Wiktionary
  9. adapter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adapter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adapter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adapter: Dictionary.com
  13. Adapter (Genetics), Adapter (computing), Adapter (disambiguation), Adapter (genetics), Adapter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Adapter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. adapter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. adapter: Rhymezone
  17. Adapter (m), adapter, adapter (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. adapter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. adapter: FreeDictionary.org
  20. adapter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. adapter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. adapter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. adapter: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Adapter, adapter: CCI Computer
  2. Adapter: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. adapter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. adapter: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. adapter: Medical dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  One who is capable of adapting to differing situations.
noun:  One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.
noun:  A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
noun:  Specifically, a device that permits two or more plugs to be used at a single electrical power point.
noun:  Specifically, a device that allows one format of plug to be used with a different format of socket.
noun:  Specifically, an AC adapter: a device that reduces voltage and converts AC to DC to allow a battery-powered device to use mains power.
noun:  (machine learning, artificial intelligence) A collection of low-rank matrices which, when added to a base model, produces a fine-tuned model; a LoRA.

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