widget

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• Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt

Coined by George S. Kaufman in his play Beggar on Horseback (1924).

widget (plural widgets)

1. A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.

   Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 units per year...

2. (computing) Portable code that can be easily installed and executed by an end user.
3. A floating device inside a beer can, meant to create foam when opened.
4. A small scraping tool consisting of a blade and a handle, commonly used to remove paint from glass and other smooth surfaces.

• (unspecified manufactured good): thingy, gizmo, sprocket; see also Thesaurus:thingy
• (scraping tool): scraper

Blend of window +‎ gadget

widget (plural widgets)

1. (computing, graphical user interface) Any one of the components of a computer application's graphical user interface, such as a Cancel button or text input box that a user interacts with.

• (GUI): control

From English widget.

widget m (plural widgets)

1. (computing) widget