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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'waldo' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions waldo noun  A remote manipulation system in which a slave device mimics the motions of a master device manipulated directly by the operator. 1940: Robert A. Heinlein, Waldo : "Waldo flexed and extended his fingers gently; the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism." Etymology: From the Robert A. Heinlein story Waldo, published in Astounding in 1940, derived from the name of the eponymous protagonist, Waldo F. Jones, who invented remote manipulators to overcome his own wikipedia:myasthenia gravis, myasthenia gravis.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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