off-the-shelf
adjective
: available as a stock item : not specially designed or custom-made
off-the-shelf software
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Examples of off-the-shelf in a Sentence
she chose to have her computer designed to her specifications rather than buying an off-the-shelf machine
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Simply adopting off-the-shelf gen AI tools will likely not be enough: after all, the competition can do the same.
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Rodney Zimmel, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2024
The projector/computer The business of determining where lights should go in real-time is, unsurprisingly, achieved using algorithms powered by off-the-shelf Nvidia server GPUs.
—Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Researchers at the University of Michigan have come up with a clever way of turning darkness into night vision with a new OLED approach thinner than paper – all while using off-the-shelf parts and existing OLED manufacturing processes.
—New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024
Could a cyberattack trigger off-the-shelf pagers to explode?
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
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Rodney Zimmel, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2024
The projector/computer The business of determining where lights should go in real-time is, unsurprisingly, achieved using algorithms powered by off-the-shelf Nvidia server GPUs.
—Benny Har-Even, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Researchers at the University of Michigan have come up with a clever way of turning darkness into night vision with a new OLED approach thinner than paper – all while using off-the-shelf parts and existing OLED manufacturing processes.
—New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024
Could a cyberattack trigger off-the-shelf pagers to explode?
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Off-the-shelf.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/off-the-shelf. Accessed 3 Oct. 2024.
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