multitool

See also: multi-tool

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ tool.

Adjective

multitool (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to more than one tool.
    • 2016, Marcel Kornfeld, ‎Bruce Huckell, Stones, Bones, and Profiles (page 108)
      These experiments established diagnostic criteria for wear traces produced by impact, knife use, and multitool use.

Noun

multitool (plural multitools)

a multitool partly unfolded, displaying its various tools (implements)
  1. A portable hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single assembly or body.
    Hyponym: leatherman
    Holonyms: EDC, everyday carry
    1. A Swiss Army knife or similar tool.
    2. Any of a class of folding or telescoping tools with a plier head as the central implement and with sets of peripheral implements (typically knife blades, screwdrivers, files, saws, can openers, bottle openers, scissors, and so on).
    3. Any similar tool with some other central implement (such as shears) or with no central implement, but sharing the themes otherwise.
    4. Any of a class of monolithic tools with various holes and edges that act as the multiple implements.
  2. An oscillating power tool that can perform multiple functions with different attachments.
    Synonym: oscillating tool

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