Crossword clues for manipulator
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manipulator \Ma*nip"u*la`tor\, n. One who manipulates, sometimes in an underhanded or fraudulent manner; as, a stock market manipulator.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1804, from manipulate with Latin agent noun ending. Perhaps formed on model of French manipulateur (1783).
Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of manipulate; one who manipulates. 2 A device which can be used to move, arrange or operate something. 3 A puppeteer, especially one controlling marionettes.
WordNet
n. an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard" [syn: operator]
a person who handles things manually
Wikipedia
In robotics a manipulator is a device used to manipulate materials without direct contact. The applications were originally for dealing with radioactive or biohazardous materials, using robotic arms, or they were used in inaccessible places. In more recent developments they have been used in applications such as robotically-assisted surgery and in space. It is an arm-like mechanism that consists of a series of segments, usually sliding or jointed, which grasp and move objects with a number of degrees of freedom.
In industrial ergonomics a manipulator is a lift assist device used to help workers lift, maneuver and place articles in process that are too heavy, too hot, too large or otherwise too difficult for a single worker to manually handle. As opposed to simply vertical lift assists (cranes, hoists, etc.) manipulators have the ability to reach in to tight spaces and remove workpieces. A good example would be removing large stamped parts from a press and placing them in a rack or similar dunnage.
Additionally, manipulator tooling gives the lift assist the ability to pitch, roll, or spin the part for appropriate placement. An example would be removing a part from a press in the horizontal and then pitching it up for vertical placement in a rack or rolling a part over for exposing the back of the part.
Manipulator is the third full-length album from Mukilteo, Washington's The Fall of Troy. It was released on May 1, 2007 through Equal Vision Records, and is the follow-up to their previous 2005 effort, Doppelgänger. The title of the album is taken from the song "Sledgehammer".
Manipulator is the seventh studio album by American rock musician Ty Segall, released on August 25, 2014 on Drag City. The album took 14 months to complete, much longer than any previous Segall release. It is also his longest album yet, clocking in at 56 minutes.
Manipulator modificaputis is an extinct predatory cockroach which lived during the Upper Cretaceous period. The holotype specimen is fossilized in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber, which was found in a quarry of volcanoclastic mudstone (a sedimentary rock) at Noije Bum in the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar. The insect has been described by Peter Vršanský, of the Geological Institute SAS of Bratislava, and by Günter Bechly, of the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart.
The cockroach was found to have an elongated neck, a freely rotating head and unexpectedly long legs, which are indicative of a predatory lifestyle. The insect body is long and wide.
The authors erected a new family, "Manipulatoridae," after examining the specimen on the basis of "the unique habitus with numerous autapomorphies along with several plesiomorphies." Four other specimens, including that of a juvenile were discovered from the Myanmar amber mines.
This species was found along with dozens of other extinct species of insects fully preserved in amber, making Noije Bum in the Hukawng Valley region one of the most important regions for amber fossils containing fully preserved insects. It is part of a family of cockroaches that regularly hunted prey. Dozens of other preserved insects were found in the area in Noije Bum, where the fossilized remains of the extinct species were also found. Only one group closely related to this species survives today, the praying mantis.
This species belonged to the invertebrate fauna of the ancient amber forest of the Myanmar region.
Manipulator may refer to:
- A person who applies psychological manipulation
- Manipulator (device), a device used to manipulate materials without direct contact
Usage examples of "manipulator".
He would be first and foremost a human predator, a born manipulator who would get by in life by exploiting people and systems.
Usually, in telegraphy, this work consists in sending over a line of a certain resistance intermittent currents, through the intermedium of suitable manipulators.
In withered and deformed limbs, resulting from infantile paralysis, the manipulator furnishes the most agreeable, direct, and certain remedy.
Melony asked him, but Homer Wells felt passing through his limbs a shudder that coincided exactly with his sudden vision of the photographer, the evil manipulator of the woman, the pony, the clouds of Heaven or the smoke of Hell.
All my manipulators and flagella have gone to that big moravec heaven in the sky.
Martian shellfish, but the ancestral Hets enslaved the Hands and used the iron filaments as general manipulators.
Aric, quiet and thoughtful, master manipulator of words but about as nonphysical as it was possible to get.
The degree of circulation given to the fluids, both inside and outside of the vessels, and of energy imparted to the organs and parts operated upon by the manipulator, is also unapproachable by the application of manual power.
Smaller robotic manipulators rolled along their tracks, darting out with serpentine agility to peck at some chunk of compact machinery.
Somehow, coming from an overpolished orator, a common manipulator of words like that worshiper of Tymora, the call to arms sounded crude.
The replacement crystal had to be lifted into the core, boosted slowly into the catching manipulators of the waldos, and then gently maneuvered into the main cradle.
The sectioned forward end, with its command and power modules and their manipulator housings, antennae, and light booms gave the vehicle a wasplike appearance.
Things were spilling out: an expanding mass of ellipsoidal objects, each perhaps half a metre long, metallic-white in colour, with various protrusions, gun-nozzles, manipulators and apertures interrupting its surface.
Now two of its more dextrous manipulators snaked into place and began to examine the gun's controls, stroking the leather casing in eerie fascination.
Leia found herself staring at the droid, watching as it eased a manipulator arm carefully through the branches toward a small cluster of dead leaves, clucking softly to itself all the while.