widgetnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈwɪdʒ.ɪt/us/ˈwɪdʒ.ɪt/informal any small device whose name you have forgotten or do not know
an imagined small product made by a company:
Let's assume the company makes ten cents profit on every widget they sell.
a piece of software that is used on a page of a website to give the user changing information of a particular type in a small area of the computer screen:
This new widget will bring fresh content to your website every hour.
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Objects - general words
- affair
- artefact
- artifact
- column
- conversation piece
- curio
- doing
- doodad
- doodah
- entity
- ephemera
- lot
- nick-nack
- object
- phenomenon
- piece
- shape
- such and such
- thing
- wisp
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