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adlet

adlet noun: a small advertisement.

Noun (1)

adlet (plural adlets)

  1. A small advertisement.
    • Many ambitious men have used these adlets to better their positions and incomes.1916, Hide and Leather's Year Book and Directory for ...
  2. A small app or active document that can be embedded in a Web page.
    • 5 Merging of Adlets
      Adlets move from sites to sites to seek out new adlets or active documents, announce its own presence and collect information. In its movement adlets behave like magnets. An adlet or a collection of adlets can attract other ...1998, IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing, Information Technology Research Institute (Dayton, Ohio), IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Data Engineering...
    • In our example, an adlet is created to perform the airline reservation. Such an adlet is equipped with the capability to interact with the airline reservation system and issue transactions to obtain available flights, seats and prices.1999, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Leszek Maciaszek, Proceedings, ... International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, IEEE, →ISBN

Noun (2)

adlet (plural adlets)

  1. A cryptid in Inuit mythology and folklore in Canada and Greenland, a tall, dog-legged humanoid (sometimes identified with inland Native Americans).
    • Adlets are wont to hunt on all fours, and so were born stories of giant black dogs that accost travelers.2006, Aaron Rosenberg, Various, Chosen RPG, Impressions, →ISBN
    • An adlet is part-human and part-canine, […]. They can be cannibals, eating other dogs. When they first hunt prey they go for the victim's throat and drink the fresh blood.2012, Lisa Regan, Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies, Amber Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 71

Noun (3) capitalized: Adlet

Adlet (plural Adlets)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of adlet (“half-human, half-dog cryptid”).

Examples of adlet in a sentence

  • The specific mobile agents of interest are called adlets, which are mobile agents carrying the metadata of various kinds of multimedia documents.2000, Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering:
  • This does not mean, of course, that they can transform themselves into an Adlet or that they enjoy any special protection from its attentions.2016, Dr. Bob Curran, Andy Paciorek, The Carnival Of Dark Dreams, →ISBN, page 56:

Forms of adlet

pluraladlets
alternative formAdlet
pluralAdlets

Origin of adlet

From ad + -let.

From Inuktitut.

Questions about adlet

What does adlet mean?
Adlet means a small advertisement.
How do you use adlet in a sentence?
The specific mobile agents of interest are called adlets, which are mobile agents carrying the metadata of various kinds of multimedia documents.
What part of speech is adlet?
Adlet is a noun.
What is the plural of adlet?
The plural of adlet is adlets.

Words near adlet in the dictionary

  1. Adlerian
  2. Adlerism
  3. adless
  4. adlessness
  5. Adlestrop
  6. adlet
  7. adlets
  8. Adlett
  9. Adley
  10. Adleys
  11. adlib

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