- an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"
- something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
- any clever maneuver; "he would stoop to any device to win a point"; "it was a great sales gimmick"; "a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen"
- any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery)
- an emblematic design (especially in heraldry); "he was recognized by the device on his shield"
- (devices) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'; "eventually the family left the house to the devices of this malevolent force"; "the children were left to their own devices"
- Device was a short-lived pop-rock trio formed by keyboardist, bassist and vocalist Holly Knight, vocalist Paul Engemann and guitarist Gene Black.
- The A Device is a decoration of the United States military which is presented as an attachment to the American Defense Service Medal and the Air Force Overseas Service Ribbon. The A Device is a bronze colored letter "A", pinned to the center of both awards.
- Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one; A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice; A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device; A motto, ...
- (DEVICES (ASTHMA)) Mechanisms used to help deliver asthma medication (e.g., metered dose inhalers, aerochambers).
- (DEVICES) are the raised up images on a coin. Many times they are portraits, eagles, famous buildings, and so forth.
- (DEVICES) the raised elements on a coin. Also see FIELDS
- (Devices) A device is a piece of equipment in your home theater system, such as a TV or DVD player. Within the RedEye application you should add a device for each piece of equipment you want to control.
- (Devices) Accelerometer; infrared signal
- (Devices) Create new applications that are physically impossible in "real" hardware, such as 3D objects interactively changing their shape and appearance based on the current task or need.
- (Devices) Each user can have many devices. A device represents the end-point to which voice traffic should be sent. For example, a device might be a:
- (Devices) If needed, any VE can be granted access to real devices like network interfaces, serial ports, disk partitions, etc.
- (Devices) The focal figure(s) of a coin, such as Miss Liberty's head and the eagle which appear on the Morgan silver dollar.
- (Devices) The number of improvised explosive devices (bombs created for unauthorized use) found at incidents attended by Explosives Disposal Units (EDUs). ...
- (Devices) any type of device, whether fixed or portable, capable of receiving or gaining access to the Market Data;
- (devices) The closed, unexposed areas of the design
- Devices that are attached to the computer. These devices include ARPA, GPS, GYRO, AIS Receiver, Anemometer, AutoPilot and Depth Sounder.
- These are hardwired or wireless pieces of equipment that when activated send a signal to the alarm panel which in turn sends a signal to the central station. Example - motion detector, water bug, door sensor, window switch.
- A whiz-bang hardware gizmo (like a disk or tape drive or a modem or a joystick or a mouse) attached to your computer, that the operating system tries to make look like a file (or a bunch of files). Under Unix, these fake files tend to live in the /dev directory.
- An emblem, intended to represent a family, person, action or quality, with a suitable motto. It generally consists in a metaphorical similitude between the thing representing and the person or thing represented.