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manipulator|məˈnɪpjʊleɪtə(r)|
[a. mod.L. type *manipulātor, f. *manipulāre (see manipulation). Cf. F. manipulateur.]
1. a. One who manipulates, in various senses.
1851H. Mayo Pop. Superstit. (ed. 2) 90 The state into which mesmeric manipulators first plunge the patient. 1858Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) I. 140 As manipulators, none but the four men whom I have named.. were equal to Turner. 1864Soc. Sci. Rev. 8 Science is nothing without experiment and a little practice will soon enable the teacher to become a successful manipulator. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 69 An experienced surgical manipulator. 1902J. S. Phillimore Sophocles Introd. 79 As a manipulator of language we compare him [Sophocles] with Virgil.
b. With disparaging implication.
1864Morn. Star 8 June 4 By the judicious application of patronage to an editorial staff a clever manipulator may gain for himself a character to which he has no title [etc.]. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 285 A principal manipulator of the persecution company.
c. One who controls the price of stocks by specially contrived methods.
1888Economist 17 Nov. 3/3 If the people are apathetic it is utterly useless for the manipulators to undertake to push prices up. 1903S. S. Pratt Work of Wall St. 146 A professional may or may not be a manipulator, but a manipulator is always a professional. Ibid. 256 By false tips and matched orders or wash sales the manipulators endeavored to establish fictitious quotations for their stocks. 1904N.Y. Tribune 15 May 4 Manipulators desperately endeavoring to bring back recessions which will permit them to ‘get even’.
2. An instrument used to facilitate manipulation.
spec. a. The transmitting instrument attached to the dial-telegraph (1875 Knight Dict. Mech.). b. In photography, a device for holding plates without handling them (ibid. Suppl.). c. An exercising machine for rubbing or pummelling the body (ibid.). d. A machine for manipulating blooms of iron or steel. e. An instrument used by those who instruct the deaf in the articulation of sounds.
1860G. B. Prescott Electr. Telegr. vi. 97 Fig. 48 is an instrument for bringing any number of batteries into circuit at pleasure,..It is called a manipulator. 1886–7Miss L. D. Richards Proc. Amer. Instruct. Deaf 235, I use the manipulator very little. 1888Sci. Amer. 15 Sept. 166/2 An Improved Ingot Manipulator.
f. A device for handling radioactive material, operated by remote control from behind a protective shield.
1952Nucleonics Nov. 41/1 They have been named master-slave manipulators because all the seven degrees of freedom of the tongs are slaved to the single master handle. 1955Reactor Handbk.: Engin. (U.S. Atomic Energy Comm.) 859 A general-purpose manipulator is considered to be a remotely-controlled mechanical arm capable of gripping diverse objects... All movements of the manipulator arm are controlled by a human operator... The manipulator may have a lower or higher load capacity than the human arm. 1958New Scientist 24 Apr. 21/1 A manipulator believed to be the only one manufactured in Europe that is operated by electrical remote control will be displayed at next week's Hanover Fair... The power manipulator is equipped with interchangeable grasping units..and can lift and position objects weighing up to 750 lbs. 1962Newnes Conc. Encycl. Nucl. Energy 488/2 These manipulators fall into three classes: 1. Handling tongs and sphere units... 2. Master-slave manipulators... 3. Rectilinear power manipulators. 1969IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. XVI. 594/2 The geometry of the Brookhaven AGS and of other synchrotrons requires a larger degree of remoteness than is possible with mechanically-connected master-slave manipulators. |