Sentence examples for adapter from inspiring English sources

The word ‘adapter’ is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a device that allows two incompatible electronic devices to connect and communicate with each other. For example, “I need to buy an adapter so I can connect my laptop to the TV.”.

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adapter

noun

One who is capable of adapting well to differing situations.

  • He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership.

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The two are long-time friends; they have never moved an idea all the way to production on this scale before.They started with a computer model of the adapter, created with Rhinoceros 3D design software.

Model B, with a built-in network adapter plus an Ethernet port, a second USB socket and double the amount of RAM (512 megabytes), costs just $35.

The caps themselves can be modified by having various adapter molecules attached to them, resulting in versions of Oligotron that have different applications.

For example, Dr Elliott attached photo-sensitive adapter molecules to the caps.

Both computers used popular versions of their components and peripherals including the mouse, keyboard, CD drive, network card, audio system, video adapter, monitor and printer.

When exposed to ultraviolet light, these particular adapter molecules cross-react, causing the plastic to harden.

The polymer in unexposed areas can then be washed away.Oligotron attached to other adapter molecules can be used to make chemical sensors (the adapter reacts with the substance to be sensed, and this changes the conductivity of the Oligotron) and the active ingredient of solar-cells, which convert the sun's rays into electricity.

And he hypothesised the necessity of what he referred to as adapter molecules, each specific to one of the 20 sorts of amino-acid building block from which proteins are composed.

On a recent trip abroad, Babbage finally realised that a single charger (plus an appropriate power-socket adapter) can be used to top up the batteries in his tablet and smartphone as well as a bunch of foreign phones.

It allows customers to plug their old phones into an adapter that routes the call through the internet and crosses back, if necessary, to the phone network at the other end.In the past, VoIP has not had a great reputation among consumers if, indeed, they had heard of it at all.

Possibly.THIS from the two New Yorkers who designed the Glif, a tripod adapter for the iPhone 4. It's a hunk of rubberized plastic with a threaded bushing that will ultimately retail for $15.

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