actuate
verb (used with object)
actuating
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present participleof actuate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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A programmable, actuating fiber developed by an interdisciplinary team of MIT researchers could someday make this vision a reality.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
Bao’s artificial nerves already do something similar, adding up mechanical signals and converting them into an actuating one.
From Nature ● Nov. 20, 2018
Such questions grow more urgent as we fill our homes – and bodies – with sensor-studded, actuating surveillance robots.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2015
When a ball enters the split segment of pipe, it pushes the two halves of the pipe apart, actuating a switching device.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 1, 2011
After each opening of the valve the exhaust-valve actuating lever was automatically locked in the valve-open position by a spring-loaded pawl, or catch.
From The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design by Leonard S. Hobbs
