actuate
Example Sentences
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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
This solicitude never failed to actuate my father during events which occurred recently in Bulgaria, Austro-Hungary, and Bosnia.
From The Great War in England in 1897 by Le Queux, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
