ALSO CALLED: Gender Menders and Gender Benders DEFINITION: A gender changer is a cableadapter that converts a male connector (a connector with one or more pins or plugs) into a female connector (a connector with one or more holes or receptacles) of the same type, or a female connector to a male
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GENDER CHANGERS DEFINITION (continued): connector of the same type. A gender changer can be a self-contained, rigid piece of hardware, or it can consist of a short length of cable with male connectors on each end or female connectors on each end. Sometimes the term is used in reference to a device that has a male or female connector at each end, but the two connectors are of different types (for example, a female Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector on one end and a female serial port connector on the other). Gender Changers definition sponsored by WhatIs.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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