shim

/ʃɪm/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms shims shimming shimmed Sim

1. noun A wedge.
2. noun A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
3. noun (computing) 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 open a lock.
6. noun (crime) A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
7. verb (ambitransitive) To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
8. verb To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
9. verb (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
10. verb (ambitransitive) To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
11. noun (informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
12. noun (informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
13. proper noun A surname from Korean.

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “shim”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details