device

noun
/dɪˈvaɪs/

Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

Other meanings

A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us."

A kind of

means

Kinds of device

slide chart
acoustic device
airfoil
alarm
appliance
automatic pilot
bait
bird feeder

Example sentences

“You're already paying to carry a tracking device around.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Latin "dīvīsus".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “device” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.