ungrasp
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]ungrasp (third-person singular simple present ungrasps, present participle ungrasping, simple past and past participle ungrasped)
- To release one's grasp on; to let go of.
- 1863 April, Jonathan Watson, “The Inheritance: And How to Reach It”, in The Baptist Magazine, volume 7, page 223:
- Cling to one person : ungrasp your hold of all other persons and things.
- 1883, James Jackson Wray, Light from the old lamp, homespun homilies, page 192:
- Have they explained in terms the revivifying process by which the dead, cold hand of winter ungrasps its victims, to wear once more the charming glow of summer life ?
- 1877, Horatius Bonar, My Old Letters, page 87:
- Will death ungrasp his hard-locked treasure, when I shout in his deaf ear and say, Restore My stolen gold, and give me back my gems?
- 1975, Satya Prakash, Pātañjala Rāja Yoga, page 144:
- Ungrasp your ankles; lie down in the original position and repeat another time for 10 seconds.
Noun
[edit]ungrasp (plural ungrasps)
- The act of ungrasping; the release of something that is grasped.
- 1991, S.G. Tzafestas, Engineering Systems with Intelligence:
- This means that the ungrasp of the object constraints the grasping.
- 1992, Alan A. Desrochers, Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration, page 302:
- For example, the system will select a grasp point for an object without concerning itself about possible problems during the ungrasp that is to be performed many steps in the future.
- 2012, B.O. Nnaji, Theory of Automatic Robot Assembly and Programming, page 89:
- After the grasping orientation has been decided, find the proper locations for the grasp and ungrasp of the gripper.