Early dimmers were directly controlled through the manual manipulation of large dimmer panels.

To treat musculoskeletal pain, manual manipulation of the needles is all that many experienced physicians consider to be necessary.

Today this is an extremely difficult process, requiring manual manipulation of molecules using such devices as a scanning tunneling microscope.

For instance, the company's engineering DNA is algorithms that work at scale with minimal manual manipulation.

Palmer, a magnetic healer, hypothesized that manual manipulation of the spine could cure disease.

State employees may have to do some "manual manipulation" of the data before paying such claims, he said.

When the pieces are pushed together, the ridges interlock and do not come apart without manual manipulation.

"In computers, we do all kinds of manual manipulations," Mr. Rosenberg said.

Again, barring may be used to do this, although operators sometimes do this by careful manual manipulation of the valves.