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gizmo

noun

A nonsensical placeholder name for something, generally a device, that one does not know the proper term for; gadget; whatchamacallit; thingamajig.

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'gizmo' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is generally used to describe a small device that is not easily identified or categorized, often one whose name the speaker doesn't know or can't remember. For example, "I don't know what that gizmo is called, but it sure is handy."

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But the arrival in the past year of the Coravin, a gizmo that lets sommeliers extract a glass of wine from a bottle without opening it or spoiling the remains, has made by-the-glass ranges, particularly in London, a whole lot more interesting.

Not so long ago these were brick-heavy and feeble; now LED technology means even a pocket-size gizmo weighing 50g packs retina-scorching power and can be charged from a USB port.

What makes ARM processors ideal for the cramped innards of a handheld gizmo is their compact design, low operating temperature and frugal power consumption.

With Global Radio's transmissions and GPS signals being neighbours in the radio spectrum, it ought not to be too difficult to make a dual-function chipset for an all-purpose, music-everywhere, never-get-lost gizmo.

Perhaps, finally, there would be a pocket-sized gizmo capable of fulfilling the role your correspondent's sorely missed palmtop computers played in the past.

Will this new gizmo follow in the footsteps of Apple's music-player, and prove an unexpected hit?

(Hence the brisk sales of a $22 gizmo called the Knee Defender, now banned by some airlines, which attaches to a tray strut and prevents the seat in front from reclining).

Anybody pondering what wondrous new gizmo should replace their VCR had better wait.

As a white-space gizmo moves around a city, the channels it can use will change, depending on how close it gets to various transmitters.

It already has its own biography*, by the journalist Steven Levy, who considers the gizmo an icon of modern times.

The problem is that the current guidelines require each airline to test every make and model of each gizmo it wants the FAA to approve for use on its flights—and then to do the same for every type of aircraft in its fleet.

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