Word Study
adaptation |
adaptational |
adaptative |
adapted |
adaptedness |
adapter
| adaption
| adaptive
| adaptive optics
| adaptive radiation
| adaptiveness
adapter
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun adapter has 2 senses
- adapter(n = noun.person) arranger, transcriber - a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance; Array is a kind of musician
- adapter(n = noun.artifact) adaptor - 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; Array is a kind of device
has particulars: orchestrator
Derived form verb adapt1
CIDE DICTIONARY
adapter, n.
- One who adapts. [1913 Webster]
- A connecting tube; an adopter. [1913 Webster]
For further exploring for "adapter" in Webster Dictionary Online
