Look up: adaptor

1. Adaptor
   A fitting that unites different types of pipe together, e.g. ABS to cast iron pipe.
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2. adaptor
   an intermediate device to provide for attachments such as special accessories,special mounting means or special interconnecting means Category: Electrical engineering and energy • s are used when it is necessary to join a socket of one size drive with a handle of a different size drive. Category: Technical and industry in general
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3. Adaptor
   A fitting that unites different types of pipe together, e.g. ABS to cast iron pipe.
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4. adaptor
   A protein complex associated with coated vesicles. Adaptors have been shown to promote the in vitro assembly of clathrin cages and to bind to the cytoplasmic domains of specific membrane proteins. It has been proposed that adaptors link selected membrane proteins to clathrin causing them to be packaged into a coated vesicle. Two adaptors have been identified (HA-1 and HA-2); they are hetero-tetramers composed of two proteins of 100-110 kD, termed …
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5. adaptor
   <molecular biology> Short synthetic oligonucleotide strands that have one stickyend and oneblunt end, the blunt ends join to the blunt end of a DNA fragment, forming a new fragment with two sticky ends that can be more easily spliced into a vector. ... (13 Oct 1997) ...
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6. Adaptor
   (tool) (Automatic DAta Parallelism TranslatOR) A source to source transformation tool that transforms data parallel programs written in Fortran 77 with array extensions, parallel loops, and layout directives to parallel programs with explicit message passing. ADAPTOR generates Fortran 77 host and n...
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7. adaptor
   a portable accessory constructed as an integral unit incorporating both a plug portion and one or more socket-outlet portions
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8. adaptor
   an intermediate device to provide for attachments such as special accessories, special mounting means or special interconnecting means
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9. Adaptor
   An adaptor was a 1920's tail of hair made in a strip about 15 cm wide with macrame running through it, and worn as an extension to give short hair the appearance of being longer.
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