How to pronounce “actuator”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Something that actuates something else.
• A usually electric device that causes a mechanical device (i.e., a mechanism) to be switched on or off. For example; an electric motor that opens and closes a valve.
• (computer hardware) The mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive.
• (electricity) A relay that controls the flow of electricity.
• [Verb]
• second/third-person singular future passive imperative of āctuō

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