0 past simple and past participle of manipulate
1 to control something or someone to your advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly:
Throughout her career she has very successfully manipulated the media.
The opposition leader accused government ministers of manipulating the statistics to suit themselves.
2 to control something using the hands:
The wheelchair is designed so that it is easy to manipulate.
The doctor manipulated the base of my spine and the pain disappeared completely.
When two or more independent variables (treatment conditions) are manipulated at the same time, we are dealing with factorial experiments.
One of the preconditions for each task prior to gripper release is the gripper is holding the object being manipulated.
The food object is manipulated toward the mouth, at which time a series of bite/swallow responses occur.
Three levels were manipulated : strong location control, non-location control and static.
Rather, the definition can be enacted and manipulated through the action of social agents.
This cage can then be tracked or manipulated further downstream in the analysis using an electric field.
His argument does, however, differ from ours in his claim that individual citizens can easily be manipulated by professional politicians.
Whereas meaning exists in subjective appreciation or understanding of something, information may be stored, reproduced, analysed and manipulated separately from its subjective meaning.
