plural of improvised explosive device

(historical) A form of lace worked with devices. / (obsolete) Anything uncommonly precise and exact.

(linguistics, translation studies) A word, expression or method in a text or utterance that connects related ideas and messages.

(marketing) An order form ready to be mailed (i.e. printed on a postcard or accompanied by an envelope etc.), sent out as part of a marketing campaign.

(gambling) The time spent playing on a gaming machine, seen as a metric.

(computing, UNIX) An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.

Alternative spelling of nanodevice

electronic device

An item of hand-held electronic equipment, especially a smartphone or tablet computer.

(historical) A time bomb.