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widget
n.
hypothetical object; name for an item whose name has been forgotten; graphic symbol that enables interaction between the user and computer (scroll bar, button, etc.); small computer program that defines the action of graphic symbols
Widget
Widget may refer to:
Technology
Computing
- Software widget, a generic type of software application comprising portable code intended for one or more different software platforms
- Widget toolkit, a software library containing a collection of GUI widgets that collaborate when used in the construction of applications
- Web widget, an applet intended to be used within web pages
- GUI widget, in computer programming, a reusable element of a graphical user interface
- Widget drive, a hard drive used only in the Apple Lisa computer system
- A shorthand term for a cross functional group
Yahoo! Widgets
Yahoo Widgets was a free application platform for
Mac OS X and
Microsoft Windows, specifically
Windows XP,
Vista,
Win 7,
Win 8 and
Win 10. The software was previously called
Konfabulator, but after being acquired by computer services company
Yahoo in 2005 it was rebranded. The name Konfabulator was subsequently reinstated as the name of the underlying rendering engine. The engine uses a
JavaScript runtime environment combined with an
XML interpreter to run small applications referred to as
widgets, and hence is part of a class of
software applications called
widget engines.
widget
Noun
1. a device that is very useful for a particular job
(synonym) appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo
(hypernym) device
(hyponym) gadgetry
widget
(n.) = widget.
Ex: The term widget is taken from the 1963 movie, 'The Wheeler-Dealers'.
widget
Synonyms and related words:
affair, article, artifact, concern, dingus, dofunny, dohickey, dojigger, dojiggy, domajig, domajigger, doodad, dowhacky, eppes, etwas, flumadiddle, gadget, gigamaree, gimmick, gizmo, hickey, hootenanny, hootmalalie, jigger, material thing, object, quelque chose, something, thing, thingum, thingumabob, thingumadad, thingumadoodle, thingumajig, thingumajigger, thingumaree, thingummy, whatchy
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
