gadgetry

[gaj-i-tree]

noun

1. mechanical or electronic contrivances; gadgets.

   the gadgetry of the well-equipped modern kitchen.

gadgetry

/ ˈɡædʒɪtrɪ /

noun

1. gadgets collectively

2. use of or preoccupation with gadgets and their design

Word History and Origins

Origin of gadgetry¹

First recorded in 1915–20; gadget + -ry

Example Sentences

Now, except for electronic gadgetry, the physical façade of American life, as well as its cultural manifestation in popular entertainment, is roughly the same as it was in about 1985.

From Salon

The battle is not only about digital gadgetry.

From Seattle Times

The House of Tomorrow was popular, with new gadgetry as well as unusual building materials.

From Seattle Times

But the U.S.'s high-tech gadgetry proved to have little value in Afghanistan, where fighters constructed homemade fertilizer-based explosives and buried them in that country's dirt roads.

From Science Daily

That allows the box-shaped gadgetry to find a safer place to land.

From Seattle Times

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