waldo
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See also: Waldo
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 myasthenia gravis.
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Noun
waldo (plural waldos or waldoes)
- Synonym of telefactor
- 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.
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