multitool
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English
Etymology
Noun
multitool (plural multitools)
- A portable hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single assembly or body; thus:
- A Swiss Army knife or similar tool.
- Any of a class of folding or telescoping tools with a plier head as the central implement and with sets of peripheral implements (typically knife blades, screwdrivers, files, saws, can openers, bottle openers, scissors, and so on).
- Any similar tool with some other central implement (such as shears) or with no central implement, but sharing the themes otherwise.
- Any of a class of monolithic tools with various holes and edges that act as the multiple implements.
- An oscillating power tool that can perform multiple functions with different attachments.
- Synonym: oscillating tool
Alternative forms
Translations
portable hand tool
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power tool
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