toolkit

See also: tool kit

English

Toolkit

Alternative forms

• tool kit

Etymology

tool +‎ kit

Noun

toolkit (plural toolkits)

1. A set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type of work.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 119:

     The culture of Ice Age humanity expresses a steady growth in the complexity of the tool kit, and a steady growth in complexity of artistic development.

2. (by extension) A set of personal abilities, skills, or resources to draw on.
3. (computing) A set of software tools or components.
   • 1986, PC Mag, volume 5, number 17, page 221:

     Morgan Computing Co.'s Disk Toolkit is the perfect program for speed demons who want a more flexible way to wield DEBUG's power.

4. (India, politics) A set of guidelines or instructions.
5. (India, politics, derogatory) Instructions to organise a protest.

Related terms

• devkit
• toolbox
• toolset

Translations

assembly of tools

• Arabic: المعدات‎, الأدوات‎
• Armenian: գործիքակազմ (hy) (gorcikʿakazm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工具箱 (zh) (gōngjùxiāng)

• Dutch: gereedschapskist (nl) f or m
• Estonian: tööriistakomplekt, töökomplekt (et)
• Finnish: työkalusarja
• French: nécessaire (fr) m (à...)
• Georgian: სამუშაო იარაღების კომპლექტი (samušao iaraɣebis ḳomṗlekṭi), ინსტრუმენტების კომპლექტი (insṭrumenṭebis ḳomṗlekṭi)
• German: Werkzeugsatz (de) m
• Greek: εργαλειοθήκη (el) f (ergaleiothíki)
• Hungarian: szerszámkészlet (hu)
• Maori: keteparaha
• Polish: niezbędnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: conjunto de ferramentas
• Russian: набо́р инструме́нтов m (nabór instruméntov), инструмента́рий (ru) m (instrumentárij)
• Spanish: herramental (es), instrumental (es)
• Swedish: verktygslåda (sv) c
• Turkish: alet kiti, alet kutusu, alet takımı, avadanlık (tr)

set of software components

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工具箱 (zh) (gōngjùxiāng)

• French: toolkit (fr) m
• German: Toolkit n
• Greek: εργαλειοθήκη (el) f (ergaleiothíki)
• Japanese: ツールキット (tsūrukitto)
• Portuguese: toolkit m
• Russian: инструмента́льные сре́дства n pl (instrumentálʹnyje srédstva), паке́т програ́мм m (pakét prográmm), ту́лкит m (túlkit), тулки́т m (tulkít) (colloquial)
• Swedish: verktygslåda (sv) c, toolkit n

Further reading

• toolkit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English toolkit.

Noun

toolkit m (plural toolkits)

1. (computing) toolkit (set of basic components for developing software)