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Meaning:

Noun:

  • Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
  • A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
  • heraldry 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.
  • legal An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
  • obsolete A spectacle or show.
  • obsolete Opinion; decision.
  • obsolete Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
  • printing An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
  • rhetoric A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical '''device'''.

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