Tingler
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tingler is a noun meaning Agent noun of tingle: Something that causes tingling.
Meaning
Agent noun of tingle: Something that causes tingling.
Example Sentences
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 back
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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- tinglers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ting, tingle, tiler, tinkle, tindal, tift.
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