Gadget vs Electronics - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey
* 1886 , Robert Brown, Spunyard and Spindrift, A Sailor Boy's Log of a Voyage Out and Home in a China Tea-clipper :
any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled. Often either clever or complicated.
(physics) The study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles.
(in the plural) A device or devices which require the flow of electrons through conductors and semiconductors in order to perform their function; devices that operate on electrical power (battery or outlet);
Electronic circuitry.
As nouns the difference between gadget and electronics
is that gadget is a thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey while electronics is the study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles.gadget
English
(wikipedia gadget)Alternative forms
* gadjetNoun
(en noun)- Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet , or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem. , you know.
- He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.
- That's quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?
Synonyms
* contraption * contrivance * doohickey * gizmo * widgetDerived terms
* gadgetyAnagrams
* English placeholder terms ----electronics
English
(wikipedia electronics)Noun
(electronics)- Electronics is a popular subject.''
- Look at all the electronics in this room! (rfex)
- The electronics is the difference between a modern and an old-fashion thermostat.
- ''The electronics are completely updated.