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.

present participle of tweezer

simple past tense and past participle of tweezer

(attributive) tweezers.

(US) A pair of tweezers, tweezers.

To use tweezers.

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.