device

Plural

devices

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

   • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

2. 2.A peripheral device; an item of hardware.

   • How does this device work?

3. 3.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."

   • His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.
   • Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
   • He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

4. 4.An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb

   • THE ARMY BOMB Disposal Team rendered safe a viable device in Cavan this afternoon.
   • The army bomb squad carried out two controlled explosions on the device. It was later found that the suspect device was a hoax and not a viable explosive.

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