shim

IPA: ʃˈɪm

A wedge.
A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
(computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
(informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
(informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
A surname.
(uncountable, microscopy) Abbreviation of scanning helium ion microscope.

To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.
To adjust something by using shims.
To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field, after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose.
(computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.

Examples of "shim" in Sentences

The code for the shim, which is an HTML Web resource, looks like this:
Toyota insists, though, that it has found the problem and the shim is the proper fix.
… shim is just a barren, ovaryless freak of nature who maintains a dominatrix-to-trick relationship …
This is being fixed by adding a small piece of metal - called a "shim" - in a procedure that Toyota starts at dealerships in the UK on Wednesday.
Marlene was already flipping through the _American Heritage Dictionary_ -- she had brought it in a plastic shopping bag because of my previous day's challenge of "shim" -- and she triumphantly told me, holding the fat volume in my face, that no such word was listed in it.