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pick and place

pick and place adjective: of a robot: having the purpose of picking up objects and placing them somewhere else.

Adjective

pick and place (not comparable)

  1. Of a robot: having the purpose of picking up objects and placing them somewhere else.
    • Many assembly lines use pick-and-place robots to do repetitive tasks such as placing small components onto circuit boards.

Questions about pick and place

What does pick and place mean?
Pick and place means of a robot: having the purpose of picking up objects and placing them somewhere else.
What part of speech is pick and place?
Pick and place is an adjective.

Words near pick and place in the dictionary

  1. pick a quarrel
  2. pick and choose
  3. pick and mix
  4. pick and pack
  5. pick and pass
  6. pick and place
  7. pick and pop
  8. pick and roll
  9. pick apart
  10. pick at
  11. pick away at

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