Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to more than one tool.
These experiments established diagnostic criteria for wear traces produced by impact, knife use, and multitool use.
2016, Marcel Kornfeld, Bruce Huckell, Stones, Bones, and Profiles (page 108)
plural multitools · alternative multi-tool
- A portable hand tool that combines several individual functions in a single assembly or body.
Holonyms: EDC, everyday carry
- A Swiss Army knife or similar tool.
- 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).
- Any similar tool with some other central implement (such as shears) or with no central implement, but sharing the themes otherwise.
- Any of a class of monolithic tools with various holes and edges that act as the multiple implements.
- An oscillating power tool that can perform multiple functions with different attachments.
Synonyms: oscillating tool
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn oscillating power tool that can perform multiple functions with different attachments.
Origin
Translations
Finnish monitoimityökalu, monitoimityökalu
- monitoimityökalupower tool
- monitoimityökaluportable hand tool
- monikäyttötyökaluportable hand tool
German Multifunktionswerkzeug
- Multifunktionswerkzeugportable hand tool
Greek πολυεργαλείο
- πολυεργαλείο (polyergaleío)portable hand tool
Russian мультиинструмент, мультитул
- мультиинструмент (mulʹtiinstrument)portable hand tool
- мультитул (mulʹtitul)portable hand tool
Spanish multiherramienta
- multiherramientaportable hand tool
Swedish multiverktyg
- multiverktygportable hand tool
Cite this entry
multitool. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multitool
“multitool.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multitool. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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