Usually means: Tool designed for specific function.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word device:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. device: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. device: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. device: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. device: Collins English Dictionary
  5. device: Vocabulary.com
  6. Device, device: Wordnik
  7. device: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. device: Wiktionary
  9. device: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. device: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. device: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. device: Dictionary.com
  13. device: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. device: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DEVICE (CONFIG.SYS directive), Device (Device album), Device (band), Device (heavy metal band), Device (metal band), Device (pop-rock band), Device (pop rock band), Device, The Device: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Device: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. device: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. device: Rhymezone
  19. device: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. device: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. device: Free Dictionary
  22. device: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. device: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Device: Numismatic Dictionary
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. device: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Device (band), device: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. device: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. device: Netlingo
  3. device: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. device: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. device: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. device: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. DEVICE: Acronym Finder
  4. device: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. device: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. device: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. device: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  4. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  5. device: Coin Collecting
  6. Device: Data Acquisition

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
noun:  (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
noun:  A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
noun:  (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
noun:  (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
noun:  (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
noun:  (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
noun:  (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
noun:  (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
noun:  (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
noun:  (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

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