Microprocessors are generally defined by the number of pieces of information they can manipulate at once.
We will be nudged and manipulated at every moment.
This has implications for strategy use and mathematical understanding because, for example, reversing combinations (e.g., 5 and 2 into 2 and 5) is much easier to perform when manipulating multiple objects at once than by subsequently manipulating one object after another.
Both are physically manipulated, hybrid creations, at once Western and African, or neither of the two.
They took turns sitting by the window, holding the receiver in their hands, adjusting the antenna, manipulating two controls at once.
In 1973, a Jamaican immigrant in the Bronx who called himself DJ Kool Herc popularized the art of manipulating two turntables at once, so he could repeat his favorite drum patterns over and over.
Set up just right, a collection of such quantum switches can, in principle, be used to build a computer that manipulates many numbers at once -- transforming millions of numbers in one step, or, via mind-numbingly complex manipulations, factoring the numbers that support our financial and national security.
Tasked with manipulating 40 puppets at once in a ballroom dancing sequence, the team brought in a local dance company to help choreograph the scene.
In the fire pieces she is at once manipulated by the fire, which she sees as "innate," and is in possession of it: "I can travel with it, let it go, bring it back," says Dignac.
To the degree it is manipulating at all, it is manipulating its currency upward.
