adapter
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Miscommunications between adapter and charger can fry the device or even spark fires, warns Michael Pecht, a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of Maryland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Just as a USB adapter allows devices with different connectors to work together, Floquet magnons could bridge frequencies that would otherwise remain incompatible."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
"There was an adapter charging system - full of chargers - and the fire comes out of that."
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
The most practical option was an old-school corded phone and a cellular-to-landline adapter.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
A small refrigerator is plugged into an adapter that has six different electrical devices all feeding into one outlet.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Poorly manufactured adapters lack the internal protections for managing power surges, says Bunnie Huang, a hardware researcher, hacker and electrical engineer based in Singapore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
If not, adapters are available for less than £10.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
Some other brands have created snap-on adapters to give or sell to their customers for Supercharger access.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2024
Ford has been mailing adapters to owners of its older electric vehicles so they can connect to Tesla’s chargers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
Take two instances of this: The sale of private letters both of the living and of the dead; and the seizure of the plots and characters of romances by people who are themselves dramatic adapters.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
