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Device Noun Object Invented Purpose Recording Measuring Electronic

word device
definition
noun
A device is an object that has been invented for a particular purpose, for example for recording or measuring something.
...an electronic device that protects your vehicle 24 hours a day.
...a device that could measure minute quantities of matter.
We believe that an explosive device had been left inside a container.
A device is a method of achieving something.
They claim that military spending is used as a device for managing the economy.
...the literary device of the metaphor.
inflections devices
cefr-level A2

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