shims

Meaning of shims

noun
  1. A wedge.
  2. A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
  3. A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
  4. A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
  5. A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
verb
  1. To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.
  2. To adjust something by using shims.
  3. To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
noun
  1. A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual.
  2. Hermaphrodite.

Information about shims

  • The singular form of shims is: shim.
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Hyphenation of shims

shims

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • shims is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with shims

Hims, hims, seraphims, teraphims, xeraphims, pashims, whims

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