1) The period of time needed to familiarize oneself with a new electronic device.
2) Often, a period of extreme anxiety and frustration stemming from one's need to
learn a lot of
technical information in a short to non-existent period of time.
1) "I'
m sorry,
Joe. I won't be in to work today. I'
m exhausted from staying up all night learning how to use my new i-
phone and am suffering this morning from a bad case of contraption adaption."
2) "I'
m now limiting my persuit of new
e-toys to only those gadgets with a low level of contraption adaption."
3) The salesguy said: "If you buy this new Mac laptop today, I guarantee you'll start using it today." "Yeah, sure", I said. "I'll BET there's no contraption adaption for THIS machine!"