adjective
- characterized by or involved in active personal participation in an activity; individual and direct: a workshop to give children hands-on experience with computers.
- requiring manual operation, control, adjustment, or the like; not automatic or computerized: The hands-on telephone switchboard is almost obsolete.
adjective
- involving practical experience of equipment, etchands-on training in the use of computers
also hands on, as an adjective, by 1969.