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What is a gadget?

What is a gadget? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
  2. Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
  3. (slang) Any consumer electronics product.
  4. (computing) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
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The gadget helped earn the young inventor a first class honours degree from Brunel University.
Maybe I had picked up the wrong gadget, and it was a calorie counter, primed to record a Big Mac and fries.
Whenever he is buying a gadget or an appliance, he thinks his life would get a little better thereafter.
My co-worker Fred von Lohmann, EFF's Senior Intellectual Property Lawyer, is also a certified hi-fi nut, gearhead, and gadget freak.
One of my fantasies involves covering the room with strong perfumes through some gadget that kicks in a few hours after I've presumably expired.
We are eager to flaunt every new gadget we buy but are yet to learn the basic rules to be followed while using it.

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