shim

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A wedge.
2. noun A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
3. noun A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
4. noun A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
5. noun A small metal device used to pick or bypass a lock.
6. noun A very thin piece of metal used to hold the pins at the shear line when removing the plug to rekey a lock.
7. noun A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
8. verb To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.

Similar words

wedge washer attachment bilge thrust piece top-up rectifier corrigendum supplement

Often followed by

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Word family

shimmed shimming shims