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    An adapter or adaptor is a device that converts attributes of one electrical device or system to those of an otherwise incompatible device or system....
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  • Look up adapter or adaptér in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Adapter or adaptor may refer to: Adapter a device used to match the physical or electrical...
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    In computer hardware a host controller, host adapter or host bus adapter (HBA) connects a computer system bus which acts as the host system to other network...
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    card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card...
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  • In software engineering, the adapter pattern is a software design pattern (also known as wrapper, an alternative naming shared with the decorator pattern)...
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  • A terminal adapter or TA is a device that connects a terminal device – a computer, a mobile communications device, or other – to a communications network...
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    An AC adapter or AC/DC adapter (also called a wall charger, power adapter, power brick, or wall wart) is a type of external power supply, often enclosed...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Analog telephony adapter. An analog telephone adapter (ATA) or FXS gateway is a device for connecting traditional...
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    In rocketry, an adapter is a hollow cylindrical or conical segment which provides a sound aerodynamic and structural connection, either between rocket...
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    The Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), originally also called the Color/Graphics Adapter or IBM Color/Graphics Monitor Adapter, introduced in 1981, was IBM's...
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    controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter and physical network interface) is a computer hardware component...
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    A USB-to-serial adapter or simply USB adapter is a type of protocol converter that is used for converting USB data signals to and from serial communications...
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  • A dual headphone adapter, also known as a "headphone splitter" or "audio jack splitter", is a device that allows two headphones to be connected through...
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    required a separate display adapter installed in a slot in order to connect a monitor. The term "array" rather than "adapter" in the name denoted that it...
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    A 45 rpm adapter (also known as a 45 rpm record insert, 45 rpm spindle adapter, spider, or 7-inch adapter in reference the usual size of a 45 rpm record)...
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    "Microsoft Xbox One Stereo Headset Adapter Review". PCMag. Retrieved November 22, 2021. "Xbox One Stereo Headset and Adapter Coming in Early March". Xbox Wire...
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    An adapter or adaptor in genetic engineering is a short, chemically synthesized, double-stranded oligonucleotide that can be ligated to the ends of other...
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    An adapter in regard to computing can be either a hardware component (device) or software that allows two or more incompatible devices to be linked together...
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  • Car adapter may refer to: Cigarette lighter receptacle Trailer lighting connector This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Car...
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    lens adapter is a device that enables the use of camera and lens combinations from otherwise incompatible systems. The most simple lens adapter designs...
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  • In ADO.NET, a DataAdapter functions as a bridge between a data source, and a disconnected data class, such as a DataSet. At the simplest level it will...
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    The Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter is a wireless adapter accessory for the Game Boy Advance, released by Nintendo in 2004. It provides an alternative...
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    USB in the late 1990s. Originally located on a dedicated Game Control Adapter expansion card, the game port was later integrated with PC sound cards...
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    A cheater plug, AC ground lifter or three-prong/two-prong adapter is an adapter that allows a NEMA 5-15P grounding-type plug (three prongs) to connect...
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    development of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony, analog telephone adapters (ATA) have been incorporated into many cable modems for providing telephone...
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    Japanese) adapter on a PAL system is possible since the adapter is not region locked. Only a few hundred thousand units of the Broadband Adapter were produced...
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  • specific adapter. A number of different joystick adapters have been constructed for use with the C64. The Classical Games / Protovision adapter is by far...
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    Audio adapter accessory mode defined below, in the next section. A device with a USB-C port may support analog headsets through an audio adapter with a...
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    Dongle (redirect from Dongle adapter)
    applied to other forms of devices with a similar form factor, such as: adapters that convert ports to handle different types of connectors (such as DVI...
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    A cassette adapter allows another source of music to be played through sound systems with a tape player. This is useful for vehicles without auxiliary...
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