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Adapter   /ədˈæptər/   Listen
noun
Adapter  n.  
1.
One who adapts.
2.
(Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter.


Adopter  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)





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"Adapter" Quotes from Famous Books



... all. Between that Tuesday and Friday an indecent assault had been committed on his book by a theatrical adapter named Stirling, who seized upon it without leave while yet only a third of it was written; hacked, cut, and garbled its dialogue to the shape of one or two farcical actors; invented for it a plot and ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... Schiller's subsequent influence and reputation, for discussion in the concluding chapter, let us now turn to a brief survey of his unfinished plays and of his more important work as translator and adapter. ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas


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