Shim

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A wedge.
2. isim A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.

   “Near-synonym: shimstock (uncountable)”

3. isim A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.

   “Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution.”

4. isim A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
5. isim A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
6. isim A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
7. fiil To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
8. fiil To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
9. fiil To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
10. fiil To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
11. isim A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.

    “He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.”

12. isim A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.

    “[…] that I was a hermaphrodite, and that things would probably be getting much, much worse as other "parts" of me began to grow manly and I made the full transformation into a "shim."”

13. isim Abbreviation of scanning helium ion microscope.
14. özel isim A surname.