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device
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(1) Any electronic or electromechanical machine or component from a transistor to a disk drive. The term "device" always refers to hardware, never to software. However, a "device driver" always refers to software (see driver).

(2) In semiconductor design, it is an active component, such as a transistor or diode, in contrast to a passive component, such as a resistor or capacitor.

device - peripheral


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It told of pharmacists who refuse to dispense birth-control pills to unmarried women, of those who will not sell contraceptive devices to anybody, period, and of those who not only won't fill morning-after prescriptions, but who hold the prescriptions hostage, refusing to return them to customers, knowing time is of the essence because the pill is less effective if taken too long after intercourse.
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Rivera R, Yacobson I and Grimes D, The mechanism of action of hormonal contraceptives and intrauterine contraceptive devices, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1999, 181(5, pt.
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The body language of the marital act says, 'I'm all yours,' but the contraceptive device adds, 'except for my fertility'.
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