English-Portuguese translations for device

• aparato
• aparelho
  Mas irei levantar-me, embora eu seja demasiado alto para este aparelho. I shall stand up anyway, although I am far too tall for this device.
  Essa proposta irá igualmente contemplar aparelhos eléctricos, nos casos em que isso se justifique. This proposal should also deal, as appropriate, with electrical devices.
  Na Europa, porém, são homologados aparelhos móveis que, ao serem utilizados com aparelhos auditivos, se transformam em emissores de interferências.But in Europe, devices have been authorised which, when used with a hearing aid, convert it into a jammer.
• artifício
  Os nossos interlocutores enumeraram-nos os múltiplos artifícios utilizados para reduzir as estatísticas do desemprego. Our speakers listed the numerous devices used to bring down unemployment figures.
  Os ministros do ambiente, geralmente muito ambiciosos, são muitas vezes vítimas dos próprios artifícios. The environment ministers, who are often very ambitious, are in many cases left to their own devices.
  Quando alguém se serve de artifícios para amordaçar a expressão de um parlamento, a democracia encontra-se em perigo.When procedural devices are used to prevent a parliament from expressing itself, democracy is in danger.
• dispositivo
  Usa equipamentos e dispositivos de segurança. It uses safety equipment and devices.
  Esse dispositivo existe algures em Milão ou no sul de Itália. This device exists somewhere in Milan or southern Italy.
  O dispositivo tem um sistema de ajustamento à dosagem? Is there an adjustment system in the device to adjust the dosage?

Definition of device

• Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one
• A peripheral device; an item of hardware
• 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'''
• Power of devising; invention; contrivance
• An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark
• A spectacle or show
• Opinion; decision

Examples

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

Related words

• multidevice
• cross-device
• multi-device
• device driver
• device number
• device file
• device alphabet
• flotation device
• electronic device