socket adapter

Ladies of the night sauntered past with an eye for the spacemen, their wrist-chains jingling with socket adapters.

In computer hardware terminology, slotkets, also known as slockets, (both short for slot to socket adapter) are adapters that allow socket-based microprocessors to be used on slot-based motherboards.

This featured a universal programming base which could accept a variety of socket adapters, including those for chips packaged in PGA, QFP, TSOP, and many others.

Strings of exterior light sets, colored floodlights and plastic Santas, snowmen and Winnie the Pooh's have disappeared from store shelves, along with extension cords, plugs and socket adapters.

This type of plug is known officially as a "socket adapter plug" but is referred to colloquially as a "piggy-back plug" or, in New Zealand, as a "tap-on" plug.

For example, the PC Card electrical specification is also used for CompactFlash, so a PC Card CompactFlash adapter need only be a socket adapter.

A simple DIY method for adapting problematic power strips arrangements to large "wall warts" is to use a three-way socket adapter to extend the socket above its neighbors, providing the required clearance.

ASRock offers a CPU socket adapter to allow AMD Socket 939 boards to run the new AMD Socket AM2 processors.

Apple offers an EmPower Magsafe power adapter for their MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air lines of notebooks, and also includes a cigarette lighter socket adapter.