widget

wid·get /ˈwɪdʒɪt/ noun [countableC]

1. spokenEQUIPMENT a small piece of equipment that you do not know the name for 〔不知其名的〕小装置，小东西

2 informal used to refer to an imaginary product that a company might produce 〔某公司假设生产的〕产品

Company A produces 6,000 widgets a month at a unit price of $0.33.

A公司每月生产6,000件产品，每件单价0.33美元。

n3. technical a small piece of software used as part of a webpage, or on a mobile phone, that shows information or does other things in a way that is controlled by the user

Examples from the Corpus

widget• Imagine your company sells 240 widgets a month.• Widget Wholesalers, Inc., sells 240,000 widgets per year.• Buyers of cheaper widgets now have money for other purchases.• Submissions for widgets are due by September 4.• A factory-made widget once followed a linear path from design to manufacturing and delivery.• Its cost price per widget is $ 2, and inventory carrying costs are 20 percent of average inventory level.• They can't go on making the same widget day after day.• A new text widget should support a range of colour and typefaces.

From Longman Business Dictionary

widgetwid·get /ˈwɪdʒɪt/ noun [countableC] informal

1any small piece of equipment, used especially to talk about something that you do not know the name of

Rear-view mirrors are just the kind of widget that car makers could easily buy from cheap-labor plants in Asia.

2an imaginary product that a company might produce

If a retailer marks down a shelf of widgets to $ I.99 apiece from $4.99, it may sell more of them.

Origin widget

(1900-2000) gadget

wid·get noun

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