device
IPA: dɪvˈaɪs
noun
- Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
- A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
- (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
- (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
- (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
- (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
- (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
- (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
- (obsolete) Opinion; decision.
Advertisement
Examples of "device" in Sentences
- The device was used underground.
- The price of the device is free.
- The device is attached to the sphere.
- The origin of the device is disputed.
- This is a device for stimulating the heart.
- Electronics refer to the devices and the physics.
- The triode vacuum tube is the first electronic amplification device.
- Also devices are disclosed for the insertion of the contraceptive device.
- A drying device may be interposed between the mixing device and the oven.
- The transistor count of a device is the number of transistors in the device.
Advertisement
Advertisement