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wall wart
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n. A small power-supply brick with integral male plug, designed to plug
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directly into a wall outlet; called a wart because when installed on a power
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strip it tends to block up at least one more socket than it uses. These are
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frequently associated with modems and other small electronic devices which
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would become unacceptably bulky or hot if they had power supplies on board
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(there are other reasons as well having to do with the cost of UL
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certification).
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