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Widget Engines
Widget may refer to: * Widget, a male child of a gremlin. * Widget (beer), a device placed in cans and bottles of beer to aid in the generation of froth * Widget (economics), a placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product * Software widget, a generic type of software application comprising portable code intended for one or more different software platforms **Widget (GUI), an element of interaction in a graphical user interface, such as a button or a scroll bar ** Widget toolkit, a software library containing a collection of GUI widgets that collaborate when used in the construction of applications ** Web widget, an applet intended to be used within web pages * E-9A Widget, a turboprop airliner * Widget (Marvel Comics), a comic book character, an alternate version of Shadowcat from the Days of Future Past timeline * ''Widget'' (TV series) or ''Widget the World Watcher'', a 1990s animated television series ** ''Widget'' (video game), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Gremlin
A gremlin is a mischievous fictional creature invented at the beginning of the 20th century to originally explain malfunctions in aircraft, and later in other machinery, processes, and their operators. Depictions of these creatures vary widely. Stories about them and references to them as the causes of especially inexplicable technical and mental problems of pilots were especially popular during and after World War II.gremlin on World Wide Wordsgremlin in the American Heritage Dictionary Use of the term in the sense of a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft first arose in Royal Air Force (RAF) slang among British pilots stationed in Malta, the Middle East, and British Raj, India in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Widget (beer)
A widget is a device placed in a container of beer to manage the characteristics of the beer's Beer head, head. The original widget was patented in Ireland by Guinness. The "floating widget" is found in cans of beer as a hollow plastic sphere, approximately in diameter (similar in appearance to a table tennis ball, but smaller) with two small holes and a seam. The "rocket widget" is found in bottles, in length with the small hole at the bottom. Background Draught Guinness, as it is known today, was first produced in 1959. With Guinness keen to produce draught beer packaged for consumers to drink at home, Bottled Draught Guinness was formulated in 1978 and launched into the Irish market in 1979. It was never actively marketed internationally as it required an "initiator" device, which looked rather like a syringe, to make it work. Method Some canned beers are pressurized by adding liquid nitrogen, which vaporises and expands in volume after the can is sealed, forcing gas and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |