hand-held
Britishadjective
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held in position by the hand
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(of a film camera) held rather than mounted, as in close-up action shots
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(of an electronic device) able to be held in the hand and not requiring connection to a fixed power source
noun
Example Sentences
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Over the next 30 years, the company would release several new game systems, including the Game Boy hand-held system, the Wii and the Switch.
The central actor here is Texas Instruments, the electronics firm best-known for its hand-held calculators.
Two of the dots were manipulated by players using hand-held controllers, the third by the system itself.
As is their style, the Dardennes capture all of this with frank realism that relies heavily on available light, hand-held cameras, location shoots, and actors who look like real people.
He compared it to Apple’s most infamous product failure, the Newton hand-held computer.
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