Meaning

• Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

  "There are a number of household devices in a kitchen such as a dishwasher, a garbage disposal, or an electric can opener."

• A peripheral device; an item of hardware.

• A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

• An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb

• A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.

• A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.

• Power of devising; invention; contrivance.

• An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.

• An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.

• A spectacle or show.

• Opinion; decision.