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Adapter   /ədˈæptər/   Listen
Adapter

noun
1.
A musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance.  Synonyms: arranger, transcriber.
2.
Device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible.  Synonym: adaptor.



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... only of men but of animals, has made it an all but self-evident truth to us, that wherever there is arrangement, there must be an arranger; wherever there is adaptation of means to an end, there must be an adapter; wherever an organisation, there must be an organiser. The existence of a designing God is no more demonstrable from Nature than the existence of other human beings independent of ourselves, or, indeed, the existence of our own bodies. ...
— Scientific Essays and Lectures • Charles Kingsley
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