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Adaptor   /ədˈæptər/   Listen
Adaptor

noun
1.
Device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible.  Synonym: adapter.



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"Adaptor" Quotes from Famous Books



... yet; I don't think it's finished. It's something from the Spanish or the Russian, I'm not sure. I'm to put it into shape when he's done the translation. He wants me to put my name to it as the adaptor." ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

... things would really be no more wonderful than is the evolution of the senses we have. We can do some of these things by apparatus designed by the brain of man—and man really is but an imitator and adaptor of Nature. Perhaps, on some other world or planet there may be beings having seven, nine or fifteen senses, instead of the poor little five known to us. ...
— Clairvoyance and Occult Powers • Swami Panchadasi



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