Phrase Hound found 56 phrases and 9 compound words that contain devices. The most common are listed below. Open devices in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 56
- mobile devicesplural of mobile device: An item of hand-held electronic equipment, especially a smartphone or tablet computer.
- storage devicesplural of storage device: A piece of hardware whose main function is to store data.
- Medical Devices
- Electronic devices
- Handheld devices
- input devicesplural of input device: Any of many hardware devices that provide input (from a user or elsewhere) to a computer.
- Wireless devices
- peripheral devicesplural of peripheral device: An electronic device that is outside the computer's system unit (external to the computer's enclosing case), but used by the computer to which it is connected, such as a printer or a scanner.
- Portable devices
- output devicesplural of output device: Any device that formats and presents data for display to a user; examples include printers and video monitors
- block devicesplural of block device: An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.
- smart devicesplural of smart device: Any of many devices that are computerized to an advanced degree; especially, any of the (countless) ones that make up the internet of things.
- listening devicesplural of listening device: Synonym of bug (“concealed electronic eavesdropping device”).
- improvised explosive devicesplural of improvised explosive device: An unconventional or amateur explosive weapon made from nonmilitary components, especially one used by guerrillas, commandos or terrorists.
- plot devicesplural of plot device: An element introduced into a story, film, etc. to advance its plot.
- literary devicesplural of literary device: An identifiable rule of thumb, convention, or structure that is employed in literature and storytelling.
- devices under testplural of device under test: A manufactured product undergoing testing, either at first manufacture or later during its life cycle as part of ongoing functional testing and calibration checks, which can also include a test after reparation …
- human interface devicesplural of human interface device: Any hardware device allowing a user to interact with a computer, such as a keyboard or mouse.
- solid-state devicesplural of solid-state device: Any device which employs the electric, magnetic or optical properties of a solid, especially of semiconductors.
- e-devicesplural of e-device: electronic device
- reply devicesplural of reply device: An order form ready to be mailed (i.e. printed on a postcard or accompanied by an envelope etc.), sent out as part of a marketing campaign.
- ambient devicesplural of ambient device: A simple wireless object that unobtrusively presents information.
- leave someone to their own devicesto leave alone, unsupervised, without assistance.
- null devicesplural of null device: A type of device file that discards all written data in it.
- charge-coupled devicesplural of charge-coupled device: A device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example by conversion into a digital value.
Compound words 9
- microdevicesplural of microdevice: Any very small device manufactured using microfabrication.
- nanodevicesplural of nanodevice: Any manufactured device whose scale is measured in nanometers.
- biodevicesplural of biodevice: Any device constructed from biological components
- cryodevicesplural of cryodevice: A cryogenic device
- macrodevicesplural of macrodevice: Any relatively large-scale device, but typically an implant
- metadevicesplural of metadevice: Any device that exploits the properties of a metamaterial.
- photodevicesplural of photodevice: A photodetector.
- pseudodevicesplural of pseudodevice: An entry in a file system that acts like a physical device without having the corresponding hardware.
- subdevicesplural of subdevice: A device making up part of a larger device.