Adapter

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adapter \A*dapt"er\, n.
     1. One who adapts.
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     2. (Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adopter \A*dopt"er\, n.
     1. One who adopts.
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     2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each
        other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the
        other is joined to another receiver. It is used in
        distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to
        increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite
        two vessels whose openings have different diameters.
        [Written also {adapter}.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adapter
       n 1: a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or
            instruments or for another style of performance [syn: {arranger},
             {transcriber}]
       2: device that enables something to be used in a way different
          from that for which it was intended or makes different
          pieces of apparatus compatible [syn: {adaptor}]