How to Use actuator in a Sentence

actuator

noun

• However, the company has discovered that this same IP can be used to help cool microchips with a solid-state solution that uses piezo actuators.
  — Anshel Sag, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
• Next, the actuator swings out the large portion of the arm with the charger tip.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 July 2021
• The actuator, which is used on cars, was recovered at the scene, Muñiz said.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022
• And noise is a key indication of the health of an actuator or a gear chain.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2021
• Should any of the braking actuators fail, the backup systems can prevent loss of control and bring the truck to a safe stop.
  — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The black metal actuator held by Jermaine Petit at the time of the shooting.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022
• And the simplest way to do that was simply to double the number of wings, with each actuator now flapping two wings.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 June 2019
• There's a new clutch, which only uses three plates instead of five, and a new shift actuator.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 July 2020
• This is the only actuator on the entire grip with a silent, non-clicky engagement.
  — Matthew Hirsch, Ars Technica, 4 June 2017
• Project Esther is a cushion designed to sit in a gaming chair, with 16 actuators placed throughout the back and bottom of the seat.
  — Condé Nast, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024
• The object Petit had was not a handgun and was a 6-inch black metallic latch actuator.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022
• The system has a robotic arm to move the throttle and actuators to control the rudder and control column.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2017
• The actuator only makes contact with the side of the fingertip, leaving the sensitive palm side free to touch things.
  — Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2011
• This relies on an actuator to transfer this electric power and move the fin.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• During that time, actuators could align the engine so that the thrust pointed through the LM’s center of gravity.
  — Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
• The door lock actuator is integrated with the door latch.
  — Brad Bergholdt, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• The researchers decided to use the thermal actuators, so far being used to study collective behaviors in the colony, to turn up the heat, and thus, the bees were saved.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2023
• So the robot would just be an end effector, just a series of sensors and actuators.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 26 Mar. 2017
• The direction of the force on the actuator is independent of the direction of force connecting the leads.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2018
• But Hughes instead devised an actuator that would pull the plate away.
  — David Howard, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2020
• The flight computer takes the measurements from the sensors and generates the commands for the actuators.
  — Panagiotis Tsiotras, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2024
• SpaceX delayed the Starship test flight from Friday to replace actuators on grid fins positioned near the top of the rocket's first stage.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2023
• Everything on the plane seemed to require continuous replacement: actuators for the wings, electronics for the radar, grease for the gun, and spares for the tires.
  — Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• The haptic actuators have moved to the edges of the device, beneath palms, for more pronounced feedback and weight distribution.
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 2 June 2024
• With a small battery and just one actuator per leg, CMU’s robot is fully controllable, with the ability to turn, start, and stop on its own.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• Usually, the finding is a tire that has become worn, a brake that is near its limit or a hydraulic actuator that move a flight control (such as the flaps on the wings) that is leaking.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2021
• At the other end is an actuator arm that's connected to a harmonic drive.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2018
• In this kind of jumping system, a part called an actuator moves and stores energy in a spring, which is released by a latch to propel an object into the air.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
• Each fiber tip can be repositioned in a matter of seconds by a tiny robotic actuator.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
• This at least allows recovering the rare-earth positioning actuator magnet and other reuseable components from the HDDs.
  — Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024