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wandnoun[C] (ELECTRONIC DEVICE)

an electronic device that is held in the hand and that is used to find metal, for example when checking whether someone is carrying a weapon:
A security guard uses a metal-detecting wand to check out students entering the school.
Screeners can detect anything metal with the help of hand-held wands.
She had ignored a request to stop and be checked with a hand wand.
an electronic device that is held in the hand and that is used, for example, to read data and to enter it onto a computer:
A wand reader is used as a hand-held scanner.
Electronic wands are used to check the bar codes on the products.

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wandnoun[C] (STICK)

a thin stick that is used for putting mascara(= a thick dark liquid make-up) onto your eyelashes(= the short hairs that grow along the edges of the eye):
For the lower lashes, use the point of the mascara wand and work down lashes individually.
a thin stick with a circle at the end that you put into liquid soap and use to blow bubbles:
Each bottle contains bubble solution and a bubble wand.
The giant wand will make enormous bubbles.

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wand | American Dictionary

wand
noun[ C ]
us/wɑnd/
a thin stick waved by a person who is performing magic:
a magic wand

Examples of wand

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The x position of the wands sends control 10 messages (stereo panning).
Another magnetic sensor is attached to the wand to detect its position and direction.
While the button is not pressed, the height of the wand controls the note number, as in the precedent mode.
The button of the wand triggers and holds notes.
Meanwhile, the upand-coming wave the colon's limp magic wand, without a sly joke to tell.
It rings true even if the author's wand succeeds in sourcing many of the house's felicities.
Even if it is an imperative, however, there is no magic wand that can deliver good governance.
By moving up and down the wands it is possible to obtain perceptible bend effects.
The third uses both wands to control a single instrument.
The rest of the division marked the time by touching, with their wands, the accent marks in their books.
The two first modes allow each wand to perform a different instrument independently.
Wand (1986) also records type checking decisions, focusing on function applications as the loci of type errors.
I play with my wand.
The rate of triggering and duration of the notes can be raised and lowered within a certain range by moving up or down the wand while pressing its button.
Wand (1995) recently extended his work on correctness proofs for sequential compilers to parallel languages.
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