shim

kiila, tiivistelevy A wedge.
A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
(quote-journal) (Property)|date=30 January 2016|page=15|passage=The second adjustment to a door that keeps swinging open will require the screws to be loosened, and a shim or packing piece pushed behind the hinge to bring it into line.
puhekieltä A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery.
To adjust something by using shims.
puhekieltä To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
puhekieltä a person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits, also called a he-she; transsexual.
1998, Hobart Student Association, The Seneca review:

He — or "Shim" (she/him), as film director John Waters called the actor Divine — was as much a paradoxical as a perverse fellow.

"We call him shim— short for 'she-him.'