This mains power plug travel adaptor allows European or British plugs to be inserted into American or Australian sockets

An adapter or adaptor is a device used to match the physical or electrical characteristics of two different things so that a connection may be made between them. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... CEE 7/7 plug and socket Domestic AC power plugs and sockets allow a connection between the mains (domestic, usually single-phase, AC electrical power) and the appliances commonly used in homes. ... A Device can be taken to mean: an electrical device designed to carry power, but not use it. ... Antonym of psychical. ... The article on electrical energy is located elsewhere. ... The word characteristic has several meanings: In mathematics, see characteristic (algebra) characteristic function characteristic subgroup Euler characteristic method of characteristics In genetics, see characteristic (genetics). ... The term connection (also rendered connexion - this alternative spelling is now generally considered old-fashioned, but it was the house style of The Times of London until at least the late 1970s) has various uses, including: An act of connecting two or more physical entities in a physical sense or...

An adapter may be very simple, connecting one kind of plug to another kind of socket, but not changing what passes through. One example would be a garden hose, which normally has threads that screw on, but can be attached to an adapter which allows it to snap easily on and off of faucets, other hoses, or attachments. Likewise, a serial port may require an adapter to connect between the old DB-25 type and the later DE-9 type, which have 25 and 9 pins (respectively) but only 9 wires each. A plug is: a device which is designed to stop a fluid from flowing through a hole. ... A socket generally designates a cavity or region used for fitting and connecting some specific device. ... Part of a garden in Bristol, England A flower bed in the gardens of Bristol Zoo, England. ... A hose is a hollow tube designed to carry fluids from one location to another. ... A thread is a large number of very thin fibers spun together, used in the manufacture of textiles and in sewing. ... This article refers to the threaded fastener. ... Categories: Stub ... The term attachment has multiple meanings: An email attachment Psychological attachment: see Attachment theory Attachment as a vice in Buddhism; see Buddhism This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A male DE-9 serial port on the rear panel of a PC. In computing, a serial port is an interface on a computer system with which information is transferred in or out one bit at a time (contrast parallel port). ... DB-25 is a RS-232 D-shell connector, with a total of 25 pins across two rows. ... The D-subminiature or D-sub is a common type of electrical connector used particularly in computers (that is, a computer connector). ... A wire is a single, usually cylindrical, elongated strand of drawn metal. ...

Other adapters may include a device that changes what is passing through, such as a transformer that adapts household electrical current from high voltage (100 to 240 volts) to low voltage (3 to 24 volts) suitable for consumer electronics. Transformers - Typical electrical configurations. ... In electricity, current is the rate of flow of charges, usually through a metal wire or some other electrical conductor. ... In the physical sciences, potential difference is the difference in potential between two points in a conservative vector field. ... The volt is the SI derived unit for electric potential and voltage (derived from the ampere and watt). ... Consumer electronics is electronic equipment intended for use by everyday people. ...

Rocketry

The hollow cylindrical or conical segments between rocket stages or between the top rocket stage and the shroud that houses a spacecraft are called adapters. They transfer the thrust from the lowest stage and are discarded during staging. This usage, which may appear overelaborate in that such adapters are inert structural elements rather than dynamic converters of signals or electrical power, actually derives from French.

Computing

Adapters in computing are even more complex, requiring digital translation (or even digital signal processing in the case of converters). Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a computer was a person who computes. ... A digital system is one that uses discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values: compare analog. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—called the target text, or the translation. ... Digital signal processing (DSP) is the study of signals in a digital representation and the processing methods of these signals. ... There are several types of converter: a voltage converter: electromagnetic transformer switched-mode power supply low-noise block converter scan converter between video formats A converter is also what some people call a remote control. ...

Universal Serial Bus (USB) adapters are available for printers, and for keyboards and mice, among others. Type A USB connector USB 2. ... A computer printer is a computer peripheral device that produces a hard copy (permanent human-readable text and/or graphics, usually on paper) from data stored in a computer connected to it. ... QWERTY computer keyboard A computer keyboard is a peripheral modelled after the typewriter keyboard. ... Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ...

An Ethernet adapter is the hardware required to attach to an Ethernet network. It normally resides on an expansion board, but sometimes it is built into the motherboard. Ethernet (this name comes from the physical concept of ether) is a frame-based computer networking technology for local area networks (LANs). ... A board may be a: piece of lumber (or other rigid material made of wood), milled or sawn flat surfboard, skateboard, or snowboard (often made of fibreglass) commission or committee, such as an executive board of directors or a (sometimes rather supervisory) board of governors bulletin board system or other... Sony Playstation motherboard A motherboard, also known as main board, logic board or system board, and sometimes abbreviated as mobo, is the central or primary circuit board making up a complex electronic system, such as a computer. ...

See also: port (computing), scan converter, Common electrical adaptors in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom In computing, a port (derived from seaport) is usually an interface through which data are sent and received. ... This page covers electrical adaptors which are common in the UK and presumablly other places where British wiring is in use such as Hong Kong. ...