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actuate

[ak-choo-eyt] / ˈæk tʃuˌeɪt /


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In this way, the fibers actuate using electricity, which offers a user digital control over a textile's form.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023

For starters, you can adjust the point at which its switches actuate and register a keypress.

From The Verge • Jun. 22, 2022

"My task was to design the means of allowing a customer, and only a genuine customer, to actuate the dispenser mechanism," he said.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2016

Screens were mostly resistive, that is, hard to actuate with a tap. 

From Forbes • Apr. 25, 2011

A revolving shaft, N, driven from the fly-wheel shaft, carries cams, O P, which move the lifting-rods seen directly over them and the valves which they actuate.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.




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