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wall crawler

wall crawler noun: something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces.

Noun

wall crawler (plural wall crawlers)

  1. something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces
    • The wall crawler will also take ultrasound readings to reveal pits and cracks beneath the surface of the steel walls.1995 September 23, Vincent Kiernan, “Send in the robots”, in New Scientist, volume 147, →ISSN, page 36
    • The wall crawler... is a commercially available crawler, which attaches to the steel tank wall through strong, permanent magnetic wheels.2004, “Remote Testing of Underground High Level Radioactive Waste Storage Tanks”, in Materials Evaluation, volume 62, American Society for Nondestructive Testing, →ISSN, page 917

Forms of wall crawler

pluralwall crawlers
alternative formwall-crawler
alternative formwallcrawler

Origin of wall crawler

From wall + crawler.

Questions about wall crawler

What does wall crawler mean?
Wall crawler means something which adheres to and crawls upon vertical surfaces.
What part of speech is wall crawler?
Wall crawler is a noun.
What is the plural of wall crawler?
The plural of wall crawler is wall crawlers.

Words near wall crawler in the dictionary

  1. wall clocks
  2. wall cloud
  3. wall clouds
  4. wall covering
  5. wall coverings
  6. wall crawler
  7. wall crawlers
  8. wall energies
  9. wall energy
  10. wall flower
  11. wall flowers

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