(n) device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible, Syn. adaptor
[林纾 / 林紓, Lín Shūㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄕㄨ] Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into classical Chinese