adapter (adapter)

1. One who adapts, or makes an adaptation; specifically, one who translates, remodels, or rearranges a composition or work, rendering it fit to be represented on the stage, as a play from a foreign tongue IMG:content-0237.png:[blocks in formation] 2. That which adapts; anything that serves the purpose of adapting or adjusting one thing to another. Specifically-3. In chem., a receiver with two necks diametrically opposite, one of which admits the neck of a retort, while the other is joined to a second receiver. It is used in distillations to give more space to clastic vapors, or to increase the length of the neck of a retort. 4. In optics: (a) A metal ring uniting two lengths of a telescope. (b) An attachment to a microscope for centering the illuminating apparatus or throwing it out of center. E. H. Knight. (c) A means for enabling object gla es made by different makers, and having different screws, to be fitted to a body not specially adapted to receive them. E. H. Knight. -5. A gla or rubber tube, with ends differing in size, used to connect two other tubes or two pieces of apparatus. adaption (a-dap's hon), n. [ Wise contrivances and prudent adaptions . Cheyne.