hand-held

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

noun

1. a computer that can be held in the hand

Example Sentences

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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In advance of the big vote, the town has purchased 1,800 clickers, hand-held electronic voting tools citizens use in Massachusetts town meetings, where residents gather at a central spot and vote on site.

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He found an old-fashioned seed fiddle for us to use — a hand-held device used to scatter the seeds in a controlled way, operated as though drawing a bow across a violin.

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These days, Martinez said, loaders get computer-generated instructions of where to place packages and drivers use a hand-held device to find out where each package is.

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