tingler
nounEtymology From tingle + -er.
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Agent Agent noun of tingle: Something that causes tingling.
- Occasionally they strayed through the perimeter electronics, too, and Brown and his people had to track them down and chase them away with prods they'd jerry-rigged from tinglers and pipes.1991, Cynthia Felice, Khan's Persuasion, →ISBN, page 149:
- The low-resolution signal from these cameras, a 16-by-16 or 20-by-20 array of “black and white” pixels, was spread over the back or belly of the subject in a grid of either electrical or mechanically vibrating tinglers called tactors.1993, Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained, →ISBN, page 159:
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- Prosthetic devices have been developed to enable some blind people to 'see' through a TV camera connected to an array of vibrating tinglers forming a pad of pixels on the subject's back1995, E. Moss, The Grammar of Consciousness: An Exploration of Tacit Knowing, →ISBN:
- In each 'privacy booth' was a screen and a tingler. The tingler looked like a 20th-century vacuum cleaner hose with an oversized salt-shaker top on one end: You watched the pictures, listened to the sounds, and ran the tingler over your erogenous zones; the tingler stimulated the appropriate nerve ends with a subcutaneously penetrative electric field.1999, John Shirley, Eclipse, page 131:
- Derived terms
- spine-tingler