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actuate

[ak-choo-eyt] / ˈæk tʃuˌeɪt /


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They perfected a preparation technique that creates LCE fiber which can actuate at skin-safe temperatures, making it suitable for wearable fabrics.

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

Spirits may often, and generally explore and operate from motives not perceptibly different from such as actuate their human counterparts.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen




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