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noun

a small mechanical device, as a knob or switch, especially one whose name is not known or cannot be recalled; gadget: a row of widgets on the instrument panel.

something considered typical or representative, as of a manufacturer's products: the widgets coming off the assembly line.

Origin:
1925–30; perhaps alteration of gadget

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Start with headlines in the widget and read any story with a single click.

In addition, this plugin comes with a widget that will notify the end user of the access keys that are in use on the site.

They represent the amount of money needed to pay your staff to make one unit of output, one widget.

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Start with headlines in the widget and read any story with a single click.

In addition, this plugin comes with a widget that will notify the end user of the access keys that are in use on the site.

They represent the amount of money needed to pay your staff to make one unit of output, one widget.

He also promised an unspecified cut in carbon intensity-a measure of greenhouse gases emitted per widget produced.

Also, signing up at the site will allow you to save a customized widget layout.

In simplified terms, the inventor of a widget has the right to a royalty the first time the widget is sold.

We must not forget the role of the indvidual and the willing choice to become a widget.

After all, one person's consumer good represents another person's widget.

Earlier this month, the company announced the availability of a mobile widget software developer kit.

The hard truth is that as long as the widget effect persists, teaching will never be an elite profession.

While it's hard to quantify, the company guesses that there are now several dozen active widget developers.

MySpace and its corporate parent say they want to find ways to support and exploit the growing widget economy.

She's talking about a matchbox-sized widget that museums use to monitor humidity and temperature in their galleries.

Rosenberg, the site is making its content available as a widget that can go up on other sites.

I've also embedded the widget in this post if you're reading this in a news feed.

It's a form where the whole widget can be controlled.

Screw the little widget into the tripod socket and the camera can be hung at the waist, ready to.

Gutierrez, the campaign asked to have the captioning widget on all of its videos.

These envelopes have a small widget inside onto which you record a ten-second message.

Google's widget lets you know how much energy you've saved.

Still, imagine what this little widget could do for your reputation.

And they never will until everybody you want to swap details with is using the exact same application or widget.

Once inside an app or widget though, you lose those options.

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World English Dictionary

widget (ˈwɪdʒɪt)

—n
1.	informal any small mechanism or device, the name of which is unknown or temporarily forgotten
2.	a small device in a beer can which, when the can is opened, releases nitrogen gas into the beer, giving it a head
3.	a small computer program that can be installed on and executed from the desktop of a personal computer

[C20: changed from gadget]

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Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon

Main Entry:	widget
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	an element of a graphical user interface such as a button or scroll bar; also, a module of software for a personalized Web page
Example:	The widget allows you to have "things to be happy about" on your Web site.
Etymology:	1987

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Word Origin & History

widget

"gadget, small manufactured item," c.1920, Amer.Eng., probably an alteration of gadget, perhaps based on which it.

Slang Dictionary

widget definition

[ˈwɪdʒɪt]

n.
a gadget. : Now, try to fit this widget into this slot here.
n.
a hypothetical product made by a hypothetical company. : No, we stopped making widgets last year. Too much foreign competition.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

widget definition

1. A meta-thing. Used to stand for a real object in didactic examples (especially database tutorials). Legend has it that the original widgets were holders for buggy whips. "But suppose the parts list for a widget has 52 entries..."
2. [possibly evoking "window gadget"] In graphical user interfaces, a combination of a graphic symbol and some program code to perform a specific function. E.g. a scroll-bar or button. Windowing systems usually provide widget libraries containing commonly used widgets drawn in a certain style and with consistent behaviour.
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