gripper

[grip-er]

noun

1. a person or thing that grips.

2. Printing.,  (in certain presses) one of a number of fingerlike devices for gripping a sheet and transferring it to or from the printing surface.

3. Metalworking.,  Usually a device on a drawbench for drawing the work through the die.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gripper¹

First recorded in 1560–70; grip + -er ¹

Example Sentences

“What Zohran has been signaling is: What’s the bite-size step he can take to show meaningful progress here?” said Jasmine Gripper, a Working Families Party co-director.

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The current version, which Rodriguez refers to as a “gripper,” can pick up a variety of objects, including heavy ones.

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“It’s not good enough for us to put out a gripper that is going to be weak, or is going to be subpar to the performance of a robot that is meant to lift heavy objects, that is meant to move fast,” he said.

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His company produces a $5,000 robot that has two arms, one of which typically is equipped with a tool, the other with a two-digit gripper that holds an object in place.

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They demonstrated several possible uses for the design, including a gentle magnetic gripper that can catch and release fish without harm, a flow-control filter that opens and closes underwater, and a compact shape that suddenly extends upward to reopen a collapsed tube.

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