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Definition of Manipulations
1. manipulation [n] - See also: manipulation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manipulations
Literary usage of Manipulations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A manual of photographic chemistry, including the practice of the collodion by Thomas Frederick Hardwich (1861)
"SECTION I. manipulations of the Collodion Process. These include the cleaning of
the plates, coating them with Collodion, exposing in the Camera, ..."
2. Anoci-association by George Washington Crile (1914)
"GENTLE manipulations: SHARP DISSECTION The phylogenetic facts upon which the kinetic
... Pulling, tearing, and crushing manipulations awaken phylogenetic ..."
3. Manual of Photographic Manipulation by Lake Price (1868)
"filtering paper of the best quality for the nitrate bath and solutions, and
abundance of new blotting paper for the manipulations. Note, that the foregoing ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1872)
"MICROSCOPICAL manipulations.— Mr. Stanistreet justly judges that other amateurs
will be encouraged by learning that the machinery for ruling his already ..."
5. A Treatise on Civil Engineering: Rev. and Ed. with Additions by Dennis Hart Mahan (1902)
"manipulations of mortar.—The quality of hydraulic mortar, which is to be immersed
in water, is more affected by the manner in which the lime is slaked, ..."
6. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"... though completed soon afterwards, and submitted by Terry to many manipulations
with a view to the stage, was never received by any manager, ..."
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