MEANING
A device or component that takes and maintains hold of an object.
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- robotic gripper
- gripper jaws
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The robotic gripper closed around the sample vial.
A worn gripper jaw let the component slip.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular gripper; plural grippers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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