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adapter

[uh-dap-ter] / əˈdæp tər /




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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

Last week, he was comfortable admitting to BBC Scotland that he had packed a European plug adapter for his summer trip to the US.

From BBC Jun. 11, 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

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

Modern directors and adapters are wary of the civic and cosmic levels, perhaps out of fear that pagan prophets and citizen choruses will seem artificial or dated.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

If not, adapters are available for less than £10.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2025

Mantle used adapters to fit various other lenses onto the phones, including a telescope.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2025

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

Again, there is another group of discoverer-inventors who occupy an intermediate position between the abstract discoverers above named and the inventors and adapters of still more recent times.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various




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