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UNTETHERED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does untethered mean?
• UNTETHERED (adjective)
The adjective UNTETHERED has 1 sense:
1. not confined or restricted with a tether
Familiarity information: UNTETHERED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not confined or restricted with a tether
Similar:
unbound (not restrained or tied down by bonds)
Context examples
Dan Finotello, a program director in NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate adds, This polymer integrates fast reversible and reprogrammable actuation, shape locking and untethered operation for applications in soft robotics, morphing structures, and deformable electronics, especially for designing active and adaptive guidewires, catheters and stents that could potentially enable the next generation of biomedical devices for minimally invasive operations.
(Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist and grab, National Science Foundation)
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