adaptor

/ əˈdæptə /

noun

a person or thing that adapts
any device for connecting two parts, esp ones that are of different sizes or have different mating fitments
1. a plug used to connect an electrical device to a mains supply when they have different types of terminals
2. a device used to connect several electrical appliances to a single mains socket

One of note is a compact power adaptor with a protective cover.

The artist and the adaptor have still hardly begun to work with the endless variety of substances now at their disposal.

The adaptor piece may have a face mould worked upon it to give a pilaster-like appearance if fancy so dictates.

We can do some of these things by apparatus designed by the brain of man—and man really is but an imitator and adaptor of Nature.

The adaptor deserves great credit for altering as little as possible.

He is styled the inventor of the velvet pile in tapestry, but it were better to call him the adaptor.

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