Term: adapter: 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
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: red-spotted purple: similar to the banded purple but with red spots on underwing surfaces
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: body weight: the weight of a person's body
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: tulip tree: tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit; yields soft white woods used especially for cabinet work
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: red-legged partridge: common western European partridge with red legs
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: fair copy: a clean copy of a corrected draft
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: solar parallax: the angle subtended by the mean equatorial radius of the Earth at a distance of one astronomical unit
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: waxflower: epiphytic clusia of British Guiana
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: police dog: any dog trained to assist police especially in tracking
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: japanese beech: a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood
Broader: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | Unrelated: escalader: someone who gains access by the use of ladders