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Definition: Adapter |
AdapterNoun1. A musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | 1. Any device or contrivance used or designed primarily to fit or adjust one thing to another, as: (a) a buckle or clip on a parachute harness, used in adjusting the harness to the wearer; (b) a joint attaching an afterburner to a turbine casing on a jet engine; (c) a fitting for connecting pipes, valves, etc., that have different types of threads.2. Any device, appliance or the like used to alter something so as to make it suitable for a use for which it was not originally designed. (references) |
Business | A copywriter responsible for adapting advertising and promotional copy from its original language to a different one. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A connective device designed to affect operative capability between different parts of one or more systems and/or subsystems. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The device for joining two transmission lines of identical or different transverse cross-sections that are terminated with connecting devices of different types or dimensions. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| An intermediate device to provide for attachments such as special accessories, special mounting means or special interconnecting means. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | Passage or tube that confines and conducts fluid. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Transcribes musical composition for orchestra, band, choral group, or individual to adapt composition to particular style for which it was not originally written: Determines voice, instrument, harmonic structure, rhythm, tempo, and tone balance to achieve desired effect. Writes score, utilizing knowledge of music theory and instrumental and vocal capabilities [ORCHESTRATOR (profess. & kin.)]. May copy parts from score for individual performers within group [COPYIST (any industry)]. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In computer programming, the adapter design pattern 'adapts' one interface for a class into one that a client expects. An adapter allows classes to work together that normally could not because of incompatible interfaces by wrapping its own interface around that of an already existing class.There are two types of adapter patterns:
The adapter pattern is useful in situations where an already existing class provides some or all of the services you need but does not use the interface you need. A good real life example is an adapter that converts the interface of a Document Object Model of an XML document into a tree structure that can be displayed. A link to a tutorial that uses the adapter design pattern is listed in the links below.
- The Object Adapter pattern - In this type of adapter pattern the adapter contains an instance of the class it wraps. In this situation the adapter makes calls to a physical instance of the wrapped object.
- The Class Adapter pattern - This type of adapter uses multiple inheritance to achieve its goal. The adapter is created inheriting interfaces from both the interface that is expected and the interface that is pre-existing. The Object Adapter pattern is more often used as some popular languages such as Java do not support multiple inheritance and it is generally thought of as bad practice.
External Links
- Java Tutorial on the Document Object Model ( uses the adapter pattern )
Sample
/* * Java code sample */interface Stack { public void push (Object); public Object pop (); public Object top (); }
/* DoubleLinkedList */ class DList { public void insert (DNode pos, Object o) { ... } public void remove (DNode pos, Object o) { ... } public void insertHead (Object o) { ... } public void insertTail (Object o) { ... } public Object removeHead () { ... } public Object removeTail () { ... } public Object getHead () { ... } public Object getTail () { ... } }
/* Adapt DList class to Stack interface */ class DListImpStack extends DList implements Stack { public void push (Object o) { insertTail (o); } public Object pop () { return removeTail (); }
public Object top () { return getTail (); } }
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adapter pattern."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ADD | English | Adapter Device Driver | Computer - (OS/2) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: AdapterSynonyms: adaptor (n), arranger (n), transcriber (n). (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Augmented Target Docking Adapter. Credit: NASA. |  | Saturn V Third Stage LM Adapter. Credit: NASA. |
 | Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work on the production of cube steak machinery to spout cutting for war subcontracts. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusett. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Cell phone adapter" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "-none." | "Moon Rock" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "A few nights ago I receieved in the post my super telephoto plus adapter for y camera. with this stunning optical device i can now take detailed pictures of the moon's surface. ." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Spain | Most U.S. electrical equipment and appliances need a transformer and plug adapter. (references) |
Ukraine | If traveling with U.S. electrical appliances, a plug adapter is necessary and, most likely, a converter as well (unless the appliance states otherwise). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Adapter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Adapter" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 56 | 45,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "adapter": adapter plug ♦ asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter ♦ color Graphics Adapter ♦ communication line adapter ♦ communication line adapter for teletype ♦ copy adapter ♦ display adapter ♦ enhanced Graphics Adapter ♦ graphics adapter ♦ interface adapter ♦ internet Adapter ♦ line adapter ♦ media adapter ♦ panoramic adapter ♦ peripheral interface adapter ♦ plug adapter ♦ professional Graphics Adapter ♦ super Video Graphics Adapter ♦ terminal adapter ♦ therapeutic adapter ♦ transmission line adapter ♦ usb Adapter Card Support ♦ video adapter ♦ video Graphics Adapter ♦ voltage adapter. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "adapter": adapter-director, adapter-lens. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
adapter | 1,184 | ethernet adapter | 81 |
power adapter | 439 | laptop ac adapter | 81 |
ac adapter | 396 | ps2 usb adapter | 81 |
plug and adapter | 269 | ac power adapter | 75 |
usb serial adapter | 264 | audio adapter | 72 |
wheel adapter | 255 | wireless adapter | 68 |
usb adapter | 249 | usb parallel adapter | 66 |
advance adapter | 196 | transmission adapter | 62 |
advanced adapter | 187 | firewire adapter | 59 |
network adapter | 146 | play station 2 network adapter | 58 |
video adapter | 143 | usb ps 2 adapter | 56 |
ps2 network adapter | 117 | ac adapter monitor | 54 |
scsi adapter | 117 | computer adapter | 54 |
car adapter | 114 | cmi8330 c3d audio adapter | 53 |
blue tooth usb adapter | 111 | rf adapter | 51 |
display adapter | 105 | adapter aspi | 51 |
blue tooth adapter | 98 | cellular adapter | 51 |
wireless usb adapter | 98 | pcmcia adapter | 50 |
ac dc adapter | 94 | cmi8330 audio adapter | 50 |
usb ethernet adapter | 86 | dc adapter | 48 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "adapter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | reduktor, përshtatës (adjuster, adjusting). (various references) | |
Arabic | المكيف, المهايئة, الوصية (recommendation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | автор на адаптация (adaptor), адаптер (adaptor, pickup). (various references) | |
Chinese | 适配器 (Adaptor), 適配器 . (various references) | |
Czech | adaptér, nástavec (extension). (various references) | |
Danish | adapter (adaptor, transmission line adapter, transmission line adaptor), tilpasningsled (adaptor, transmission line adapter, transmission line adaptor), reklameredaktør (adaptor, copy adapter, copy adaptor), mellemstykke (board, chock, extension, side, sideboard, side-extension, spider), marketingperson (adaptor, copy adapter, copy adaptor, merchandiser). (various references) | |
Dutch | adaptor (ADAPTOR, adaptor RNA, automatic data parallelism translator, transfer RNA, tRNA), adapter (adaptor), aanpasstuk (adaptor), aanpassing (accommodate oneself, accommodation, adapt oneself, adaptation, adjustment), kanaal (barrel, canal, channel, pipe, strait, tube), bewerker (adaptor). (various references) | |
Farsi | وفق دهنده . (various references) | |
Finnish | adapteri (adaptor), välikappale (instrument, means, medium, tool), sovitusliitin (adaptor), sovitin (adaptor, transmission line adapter, transmission line adaptor), ristikappale (slipper, spider), liitinkappale (spider). (various references) | |
French | adapteur (adaptor), adaptateur (adaptor, adaptor RNA, plug adaptor, transmission line adapter, transmission line adaptor). (various references) | |
German | Adapter (adapters, adaptor, jack). (various references) | |
Greek | σύνδεσμος (conjunction, ligament), συντάκτρια διαφημιστικών κειμένων (adaptor, copy adapter, copy adaptor), συντάκτης διαφημιστικών κειμένων (adaptor, copy adapter, copy adaptor), συνδετήρας (clip, staple), μετασχηματιστήσ (transformer), προσαρμοστικός (adaptive), προσαρμοστήσ (fitter), προσαρμοστής (adaptor, adaptor RNA, transfer RNA, transmission line adapter, transmission line adaptor, tRNA), προσαρμογέας (adaptor), υποδοχέας (acceptor, cell receptor, receiver, receptacle, receptor, receptor site, spider, torus), αεραγωγός (brattice, duct, line). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסגל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | adapter (adaptor, interface). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyadur, pencocok. (various references) | |
Italian | adattatore (adaptor, adaptor RNA, stub, stub tuner, transfer RNA, transmission line adapter, transmission line adaptor, tRNA). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アセンブリー工業 (adagio, adaptive, assemble, assembly industry, association, Atari, attach, attache case, attachment, attack, attacker). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アダプター , アダプタ . (various references) | |
Korean | 접합기 (Adaptor). (various references) | |
Manx | aachummeyder (adapter person, reformer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adapteray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | adaptador (adaptor, fitter). (various references) | |
Romanian | ajustor (adjuster, fitter), adaptator, reducţie. (various references) | |
Russian | наконечник (aglet, cap, ferrule, nosepiece, nozzle, shoe, tag, thimble), звукосниматель (sound box), зажим (clamp, clasp, clinch, clip, cramp, dog, grip, gripe, lock), адаптер адаптерный (adaptor), адаптер (pickup), держатель (holder, keeper, stocker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | adapter, punjač (charger, loader). (various references) | |
Spanish | adaptador (adapter plug, adaptor). (various references) | |
Swedish | adapter (adaptor). (various references) | |
Turkish | ara parçası (adaptor), adaptör (adaptor), uyarlayan (adaptor), uyarlayıcı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тримач, гусениця (worm), ніпель (nipple), наконечник (cap, nosepiece, nozzle, orifice, point, thimble, tip), звукознімач (pickup, soundbox), адаптор (adaptor), перехідна муфта. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người phỏng theo, cái nắn điện, ống nối (union). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adapter": adapters. (additional references) | |
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"Adapter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adapta, adaptar, adapte, adaptee, adate, apapter, paraptera. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adapter" (pronounced uda"pter) |
| 6 | u d a" p t er | adaptor. |
| 4 | -a" p t er | apter, captor, chapter, raptor, subchapter. |
| 3 | -p t er | helicopter, interceptor, lithotripter, receptor, sceptre, sculptor, sumpter, velociraptor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: readapt. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: depart, parade, parted, petard, prated. | |
-2 letters: adapt, adept, apart, apter, dater, derat, drape, padre, parae, pared, pated, pater, peart, prate, raped, rated, reata, taped, taper, tared, trade, tread. | |
-3 letters: aped, aper, area, atap, dare, dart, data, date, dear, drat, para, pard, pare, part, pate, pear, peat, pert, prat, rape, rapt, rate, read, reap. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: adapters, preadapt, readapts, tapadera, tapadero. | |
+2 letters: apartheid, asperated, aspirated, deathtrap, disparate, drawplate, parapeted, preadapts, ramparted, readapted, separated, tapaderas, tapaderos, trapanned. | |
+3 letters: apartheids, approbated, deathtraps, drawplates, eupatridae, evaporated, packthread, paediatric, parachuted, pasteboard, pentahedra, preadapted, proctodaea, propagated, readapting. | |
+4 letters: appertained, appreciated, arpeggiated, autographed, camphorated, decapitator, depauperate, depravation, disparately, exasperated, expatriated, grandparent, packthreads, paediatrics, parasitised, parasitized, pasteboards, pastureland, pentahedral, plantigrade, preadapting, preadaptive, rataplanned, repatriated, standpatter, strappadoes, transshaped, trapezoidal, unaspirated, unseparated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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