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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adopter \A*dopt"er\, n.
1. One who adopts.
2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each
other one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the
other is joined to another receiver. It is used in
distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to
increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite
two vessels whose openings have different diameters.
[Written also {adapter}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adapter \A*dapt"er\, n.
1. One who adapts.
2. (Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
adapter
n 1: a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or
instruments or for another style of performance [syn: {arranger}]
2: enables something to be used in a way different from that
for which it was intended [syn: {adaptor}]
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