Shim

NASA officials concluded the debris was likely a plastic separator, or shim, from the shuttle's ceramic tile heat shield.

Though she was not on that team, Shim said through a translator, she certainly remembered the heartbreak of her countrywomen.

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.

Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution.

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.'

Yes Maam, or Sir or just what / how do you address a shim?

[…] that I was a hermaphrodite, and that things would probably be getting much, much worse as other "parts" of me began to grow manly and I made the full transformation into a "shim."