Noun
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scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural)
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shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural)
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a fast sailing ship used in former times
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(electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude
used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
"a limiter introduces amplitude distortion"