device - English dictionary definition

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1. Device  That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
2. Device  Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
3. Device  An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
4. Device  Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
5. Device  Anything fancifully conceived.
6. Device  A spectacle or show.
7. Device  Opinion; decision.
8. device   device peripheral Device Control One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment e.g. a paper tape reader via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another. [Other examples of equipment?]
9. device  any clever deceptive maneuver; "he would stoop to any device to win a point"
10. device characteristic  any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions