What is "handheld"

Usage examples of "handheld".

One of the skinheads flicked on a handheld spotlight, throwing thousands of candlepowers in a single, blinding beam stabbing across the field.

As specifically configured for UpLink International, the sixty TRAP T-2s situated around the Cosmodrome consisted of a mix of tripod-mounted VVRS M16 assault rifles and Heckler Koch MSG semiautomatic shotguns linked via microwave video, fiber-optic umbilical cable, and precision target-acquisition-and-firing software to man-portable control stations with handheld viewfinders and triggering units.

Alpha hooked her handheld on her belt, and the two formas stood together, staring at the shoe, neither speaking, though they made abbreviated gestures as if they were conversing.

Ozzie scanned them with the handheld array, and whistled at the result.

Finally, there were a few semiportable railguns which, unlike handheld ones such as those the Implementers favored, could accelerate slugs rather than needles.

Monday morning, which was how late he and Micah were in the sugar bush They had taken the tractor up, because it was the only thing that would hold ground on the ice, and they supplemented its headlights with handhelds.

Big Scaly settled back down aimed some kind of handheld contraption that holovid camera at him.

In the dawn light the hominids were working together with what looked like handheld stone tools, butchering the carcass.

They were given cards with numbers on them, and when they picked a bushel basket full, they carried it to the foremen, who inspected the peaches and poked a hole in a grimy card with a handheld punch.

They were selling all different types, from little handheld ones, to the sort that fire out prongs on a wire that you can use to attack someone from a five-meter range, right up to big ones that resembled police truncheons.

He could see tools dangling there: a lump of quartzlike rock that could have been a handheld hammer, what looked like a bow of the natural-plastic wood.

Grim with realization, Skye showed him the readouts on his handheld sensor.

He was wearing a lab coat and carrying a bleeping handheld, and I recognized him as the head of Time Travel.

The handheld had stopped bleeping, and now it was spitting out inch upon inch of paper.

Orta had expected to be nearly deafened by the phasers—which were, after all, noisy instruments even in their handheld version, and a Galaxy -class ship’s array was several orders of magnitude more powerful, and fired at a concomitantly greater volume—but the controlled rushing of water had been a massive cacophony as well.