A small pincerlike instrument, usually made of metal, used for handling or picking up small objects (such as postage stamps), plucking out (plucking) hairs, pulling out slivers, etc.

(US) A pair of tweezers, tweezers.

To use tweezers.

(attributive) tweezers.

present participle of tweezer

simple past tense and past participle of tweezer

A scientific instrument that uses lasers to manipulate objects on the micron scale as if by using tweezers.

Tweezers; an instrument for grasping and handling small objects.

A scientific instrument that uses a highly focused laser beam to hold and move the microscopic or smaller objects such as atoms and droplets, in a manner similar to tweezers.