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The biggest decision you’ll have to make around “typing feel” is whether or not you want a mechanical keyboard, named for the physical mechanisms under each key “actuate” or trigger each input.

Mechanical keys, which use a physical switch to “actuate” your inputs, were prized for their superior typing feel and the reliability of a physical switch.

You could customize how your keyboard sounds, how hard you have to press each key to actuate it, how much that key “fights back” with each push, how many keys you want to have, and many other characteristics.

As with mechanical keyboards, the switches in the V2 Chroma use a physical mechanism to “actuate” an input, sending the signal to your Xbox or PC.

Demand for rim-brake wheels and cable-actuated shifting has plummeted at the high end of the sport.

He sought to penetrate the human heart, and to reveal the secret motives which actuate the conduct of men.

To make life a success, the glory of God must be the ruling motive to actuate us in all the walks of life.

My agitation on Sunday week during and after your departure called forth reflections which actuate my present conduct.

Only suppose that nation to possess the same feelings which actuate every breast in this House; which actuate the American people.

If thoughts do not actuate it, your distrustful fears and cares will vanish.

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On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to actuate, such as: activate, animate, arouse, cause, drive, and energize.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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