widget
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Synonyms
appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gimmick, gizmo (also gismo), jigger
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Additionally, Apple has made some notable changes to the homescreen on iPads, with a tighter grid of icons and the ability to pin widgets to the homescreen. — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, "iOS 13: Apple brings Dark Mode to iPhones and multitasking overhaul to iPads," 3 June 2019 All new devices released with Android 10 will also be required to implement disk encryption, even if the gadget is a low-power Internet of Things widget that doesn't have a powerful processor. — Louise Matsakis, WIRED, "The Android 10 Privacy and Security Upgrades You Should Know About," 22 Aug. 2019 The company’s second most popular product, a free widget that can be installed in any browser, blocks invisible trackers from Google and other companies while providing a privacy and security grade for every website. — New York Times, "A Feisty Google Adversary Tests How Much People Care About Privacy," 15 July 2019 To reinforce their scarcity, Amazon includes both a countdown clock and a widget showing what percentage of the deal has been claimed. — Hilary George-parkin, Vox, "2019’s most fun meme, explained.," 15 July 2019 Senders specified each capsule’s destination by manipulating brass rings at its base; electro-mechanical widgets in the tubes read those settings and routed each capsule toward its destination. — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, "Was E-mail a Mistake?," 6 Aug. 2019 The case and mechanical widgets the researchers built contain no electronics, so neither Bluetooth nor cables help them communicate with the phone. — Rachel Metz, CNN, "Forget touchscreens: This case controls a smartphone with buttons and dials," 26 July 2019 Staff for the attorneys created a widget that estimates how much each city and county could potentially receive from a settlement with all the drug companies being sued over the nation’s opioid epidemic. — Eric Heisig, cleveland.com, "Lawyers suing opioid companies create tool to calculate possible settlements for Cuyahoga County, other areas," 11 July 2019 But that’s like just cranking out widgets for the factory. — Eric Johnson, Vox, "The problem with tech people who want to solve problems," 26 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'widget.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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