As underhand influence

• Crowd manipulation
  Crowd manipulation
  Crowd manipulation is the intentional use of techniques based on the principles of crowd psychology to engage, control, or influence the desires of a crowd in order to direct its behavior toward a specific action. This practice is common to politics and business and can facilitate the approval or...
  
  
• Data manipulation
• Market manipulation
  Market manipulation
  Market manipulation describes a deliberate attempt to interfere with the free and fair operation of the market and create artificial, false or misleading appearances with respect to the price of, or market for, a security, commodity or currency...
  
  
• Media manipulation
  Media manipulation
  Media manipulation is an aspect of public relations in which partisans create an image or argument that favours their particular interests. Such tactics may include the use of logical fallacies and propaganda techniques, and often involve the suppression of information or points of view by crowding...
  
  
• Parental manipulation
  Parental manipulation
  -Definition:The major competing explanations of the evolution of eusociality are parental manipulation and kin selection. Parental manipulation has been proposed by Alexander and Michener and Brothers and accounts for the evolution of altruism by selection on parents.Parents which increase their...
  
  
• Psychological manipulation
  Psychological manipulation
  Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics. By advancing the interests of the manipulator, often at the other's expense, such methods could be considered exploitative,...
  
  

In a physical context

• Card manipulation
  Card manipulation
  Card magic is the branch of conjuring that deals with creating magical effects using a deck of playing cards. Card magic is commonplace in magical performances, especially in close up magic or parlor magic and street magic. Some of the most recognized names in this field include John Scarne, Juan...
  
  
• Coin manipulation
  Coin manipulation
  Coin manipulation is the art of manipulating coins in skillful flourishes, usually on or around the hands. Although not always considered coin magic, the tricks are sometimes used in magic shows. The difficulty of the trick ranges greatly, from some that take a few minutes to accomplish, to much...
  
  
• Hat manipulation
  Hat manipulation
  Hat manipulation is a form of juggling in which the manipulator performs feats of skill and dexterity using a brimmed hat such as a bowler hat or a top hat. Tricks can range from rolling a hat up and down the various parts of the body to throwing and catching the hat in amusing ways. Hat...
  
  
• Joint manipulation
  Joint manipulation
  Joint manipulation is a type of passive movement of a skeletal joint. It is usually aimed at one or more 'target' synovial joints with the aim of achieving a therapeutic effect.- Biomechanics of joint manipulation :...
  
  
• Object manipulation
  Object manipulation
  Object manipulation is a form of dexterity play or performance in which one or more artists physically interact with one or more objects. These can be special props made for the purpose of the manipulation itself - such as balls, clubs, hoops, rings, poi, staff, devil sticks, etc. - or any other...
  
  
• Spinal manipulation
  Spinal manipulation
  Spinal manipulation is a therapeutic intervention performed on spinal articulations which are synovial joints . These articulations in the spine that are amenable to spinal manipulative therapy include the z-joints, the atlanto-occipital, atlanto-axial, lumbosacral, sacroiliac, costotransverse...
  
  

In technology

• Bit manipulation
  Bit manipulation
  Bit manipulation is the act of algorithmically manipulating bits or other pieces of data shorter than a word. Programming tasks that require bit manipulation include low-level device control, error detection and correction algorithms, data compression, encryption algorithms, and optimization...
  
  
• Data Manipulation Language
  Data Manipulation Language
  A data manipulation language is a family of syntax elements similar to a computer programming language used for inserting, deleting and updating data in a database...
  
  
• Direct manipulation interface
  Direct manipulation interface
  In computer science, direct manipulation is a human-computer interaction style which involves continuous representation of objects of interest, and rapid, reversible, incremental actions and feedback. The intention is to allow a user to directly manipulate objects presented to them, using actions...
  
  
• Feature Manipulation Engine
  Feature Manipulation Engine
  FME is an integrated collection of Spatial ETL tools for spatial data transformation and data translation produced by Safe Software Inc. of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada...
  
  
• GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
  GIMP
  GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...
  
  
• Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
  Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language
  The Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language, or KQML, is a languageand protocol for communication among software agents and knowledge-based systems. It was...
  
  
• Manipulation of atoms by optical field
  Manipulation of atoms by optical field
  When cold atoms or a Bose-Einstein condensate of an atomic gas is placed in a light standing wave produced by two counter-propagating lasers of certain frequency, the atoms are diffracted in different order. A cold atom absorbs a photon from one of the laser beams and emits in the other beam...
  
  
• Photo manipulation
  Photo manipulation
  Photo manipulation is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception , through analog or digital means.- Types of digital photo manipulation :...
  
  
• Symbolic Manipulation Program
  Symbolic Manipulation Program
  Symbolic Manipulation Program, usually called SMP, was a computer algebra system designed by Chris A. Cole and Stephen Wolfram at Caltech circa 1979 and initially developed in the Caltech physics department under Wolfram's leadership with contributions from Geoffrey C. Fox, Jeffrey M. Greif, Eric...