: a small straight thin-bladed knife used especially in surgery
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While Nvidia's GPUs are versatile general-purpose processors, TPUs act like specialized scalpels optimized for AI workloads.
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
If Woking’s standard F1 GTR was a knife, the 1997 Longtail transformed it into a scalpel.
—Sean Evans, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
Once again, del Toro shows an unflinching attitude to violence, thrusting our faces in with the scalpels and bone saws (the sound may actually be more traumatizing).
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 Aug. 2025
Just as eerie is its sound design, which evocatively captures, for instance, the squish of a scalpel slicing through alien flesh.
—Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
If Woking’s standard F1 GTR was a knife, the 1997 Longtail transformed it into a scalpel.
—Sean Evans, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
Once again, del Toro shows an unflinching attitude to violence, thrusting our faces in with the scalpels and bone saws (the sound may actually be more traumatizing).
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 Aug. 2025
Just as eerie is its sound design, which evocatively captures, for instance, the squish of a scalpel slicing through alien flesh.
—Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scalpel
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“Scalpel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scalpel. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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scalpel
noun
scal·pel
ˈskal-pəl 
also skal-ˈpel
: a small straight thin-bladed knife used especially in surgery
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