| permits |  Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen
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| Peter Davison | Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
Peter Davison |
| Phyllis George | The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
Phyllis George |
| procession | Pakistani police say that a bomb blast on a Shia procession last month was caused by an improvised explosive device. |
| provocation | A provocation test, also called a provocation trial or provocation study, is a form of clinical trial whereby participants are exposed to either a substance or "thing" that is claimed to provoke a response, or to a sham substance or device that should provoke no response. |
| pump | A pump is a device used to move fluids, such as liquids or slurries, or gases. A pump displaces a volume by physical or mechanical action. |
| Roy H. Williams | A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.
Roy H. Williams |
| sabot | A sabot is a device used in a firearm or cannon to fire a projectile, such as a bullet, that is smaller than the bore diameter, or which must be held in a precise position. |
| speedometer | A speedometer is a device that measures the instantaneous speed of a land vehicle. |
| tachograph | A tachograph is a device that combines the functions of a clock and a speedometer. |
| tachometer | In analogue audio recording, a tachometer is a device that measures the speed of audiotape as it passes across the head. |
| Thomas Kuhn | It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.
Thomas Kuhn |
| Tim Berners-Lee | IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.
Tim Berners-Lee |
| Tim Berners-Lee | The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
Tim Berners-Lee |
| Tim Berners-Lee | Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.
Tim Berners-Lee |
| touchscreen | Apple chief Steve Jobs takes the wraps off its long-awaited touchscreen device, which the firm has called the iPad. |
| transducer | If you look at the transducer (the device that converts an audio signal's voltage into acoustic pressure, or audible sound) inside most headphones, you'll see it's located directly in the center of the ear cup.
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| transfer | An Israeli hacker has found a way to transfer the books on Amazon's e-book reader to any other device. |
| unconfirmed | Two of the blasts occurred near the Iranian embassy, eyewitnesses said. There are unconfirmed reports that an explosion near the city's secure Green Zone was an IED (improvised explosive device |
| uttering | A device that could allow people to conduct phone conversations without uttering a word is shown off by researchers. |
