Word Meanings - ADAPTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A connecting tube; an adopter. (more info) 1. One who adapts.

Related words: (words related to ADAPTER)

• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• ADOPTER
  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
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• CONNECT
  Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
• CONNECTION
  1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• INCONNECTION
  Disconnection.
• T CONNECTION
  The connection of two coils diagrammatically as a letter T, chiefly used as a connection for passing transformers. When the three free ends are connected to a source of three-phase current, two-phase current may be derived from the secondary
• INTERCONNECTION
  Connection between; mutual connection.
• INCONNECTED
  Not connected; disconnected. Bp. Warburton.
• INTERCONNECT
  To join together.