0 a small piece of equipment made of two narrow strips of metal joined at one end. It is used to pull out hairs or to pick up small objects by pressing the two strips of metal together with the fingers: --
1 a small device having two narrow, metal sides joined at one end and open at the other, used to hold or pull a small thing, such as a hair, by pressing the two sides until the open ends come together on the thing to be held: --
Robotics researchers have been focusing to develop such systems1 using scanning probe microscope probes, optical tweezers, and micro/nanogrippers type of manipulation tools.
Before operating, we place the cells and cover-glasses on the plate by tweezers, and then put the plate on the work platform.
Ticks should be removed directly and promptly using tweezers to grasp them and pull them off at the point where their mouthparts meet the skin.
Dissected ovaries were teased apart with sterile tweezers in a large drop of saline under a low-power microscope.
While picking up seeds with tweezers, the hand is about 8 cm from the seeds.
To define the initial conditions reproducibly, the sphere was held half-immersed in the fluid with tweezers, and released at rest.
Bells make up the overwhelming majority (85.067%) of the assemblage, which also includes tweezers, needles, rings, and fragments of sheet metal.
The gelatinous vitreous was removed from the posterior segment, using a pair of tweezers.
