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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

It is only those who know little or nothing of the feelings which actuate the real lovers of books who doubt about such very simple facts as these.

From Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts by Chandler, Henry W.




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