Synonyms for devices
de·vices

Princeton's WordNet

1. devicesnoun

   an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'

   "eventually the family left the house to the devices of this malevolent force"; "the children were left to their own devices"

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1. • Inclination

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1. List of paraphrases for "devices":

   device, appliances, apparatus, instruments, equipment, dispositifs, arrangements, artifacts, mechanisms, aircraft, installations, systems, appliance, machines, materials, gear, features, material, tools, schemes, organs, installation, fittings, facilities, materiel, apparatuses

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How to use devices in a sentence?

1. Rita Redberg:

   If high quality studies of medical devices are not done and published, it is hard for clinicians to make well informed decisions on their clinical use, and to know what patients, if any, would benefit and to know the risks of the devices.

2. Jay Henderson:

   Retailers that can’t deliver a more personalized experience on mobile devices will start losing customers to businesses that can.

3. Matthieu Lamarre:

   After what happened in Nice, we are in the process of setting up devices aimed at blocking vehicles entering the site with barriers, other vehicles standing in the way and blocks of concrete.

4. Justin Sherman:

   The sale of location data in particular on Americans' devices puts military personnel at risk, can expose their families and other people in their lives, and allow anyone with the data to see the sites they visit, map patterns of life, run intelligence operations against them, and more, it's a serious national security threat.

5. Yehuda Afek:

   The attack in 2016 used over 1M [1 million] IoT [Internet of Things] devices, whereas here we see the same impact with only a few hundred, we are talking about a major amplification, a major cyberattack that could disable critical parts of the Internet.