adapter
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"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
To charge it at home, I used my Level 2 charger with an adapter, since China uses different plugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The most practical option was an old-school corded phone and a cellular-to-landline adapter.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
The power adapter was there but no laptop.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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
Customers purchase what they need a la carte — a combination of jacket hoses, nozzles, valves and adapters that, when assembled, vastly increases the water flow rate from a homeowner’s outdoor faucet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Whatever your opinions of that series — and there are plenty — it laid out the duo’s strengths as adapters and their weaknesses as creators of original material.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
It was not until well into the fifteenth century that the long and numerous line of imitators, translators, adapters, parodists, commentators, editors, and publishers began, which has continued to the present day.
From Horace and His Influence by Grant Showerman
