manipulator
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6.3
- noun
- /məˈnɪpjʊˌleɪtər/
:
manipulador
- One of the UHD's manipulator arms placed each seismic device in the desired position.
- manipulator arm
- robotic manipulator
- robot manipulator
Examples
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Work-class ROVs usually carry manipulator arms to perform various operations.
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The engineer programmed the manipulator to precisely position the robotic arm during the assembly process.
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So we have a manipulator arm and it's starting.
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That arm is the remote manipulator system.
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Now I'm talking about a manipulator with fixed base.
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And so I couldn't cut these posts away because I would have trouble taking my manipulator out of my machine at a later time.
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Seen through its onboard camera, an ROV uses its manipulator arm to extract samples from a coral formation.
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The vehicle has two standard manipulator arms, a seven-function arm called Titan 4, and a five-function arm called RigMaster.
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Genya, the most amazing operator of any machinery I've ever seen in my life, grabbed these manipulators.
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It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.
Synonyms
454
2.6
A machine that people can program to do jobs automatically
268
3.0
A person who controls a machine or piece of equipment
18
4.9
A skilled person who operates and repairs machines to make metal parts
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7.4
A device that makes a machine move or work when it gets a signal
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
manipulator = manipulate (transparent) = manipulate + or
Agent/instrument nominalization from 'manipulate' + '-or' is a regular and directly inferable formation.
Etymology
The word manipulator comes from the Latin root manu- meaning 'hand', the same idea in manual. So a manipulator is like a 'hand' that operates or controls machines.