hand-held

British  

adjective

1. held in position by the hand

2. (of a film camera) held rather than mounted, as in close-up action shots

3. (of an electronic device) able to be held in the hand and not requiring connection to a fixed power source

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noun

1. a computer that can be held in the hand

Example Sentences

During the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019, an Afghan refugee threw a hand-held credit card machine at the shooter to give congregants more time to hide.

From The Wall Street Journal

With a camera tracking their motion, users control the Playground not with a hand-held controller but their own hands and movements.

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“Every single piece of the ad has been hand-held and art-directed—almost as though the AI is an animation tool,” Saunders said.

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Others at the venue were fanning themselves with hand-held paper fans handed out by delegations from various countries.

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For much of the 20th century, financial modeling meant working with a rudimentary, laborious set of tools: eight-column ledger paper, mechanical adding machines or hand-held calculators.

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