Adapter : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Adapter	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Adapter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adapter n a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance Synonym(s): arranger, adapter, transcriber 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(s): adapter, adaptor
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adopter \A*dopt"er\, n. 1. One who adopts. 2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also {adapter}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adapter \A*dapt"er\, n. 1. One who adapts. 2. (Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter.