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Definition of Actuating
1. Adjective. Causing motion or action or change.
Definition of Actuating
1. Verb. (present participle of actuate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Actuating
1. actuate [v] - See also: actuate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Actuating
Literary usage of Actuating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophical Problems in the Light of Vital Organization by Edmund Montgomery (1907)
"(3) CAUSATION OR actuating POWER Substantiality considered not only statically
... For this reason Leibnitz, who rightly held that no actuating principle is ..."
2. State Geological Survey of Kansas. [Reports] by Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"actuating device for a self-contained prospect drilling outfit. A form of drilling
outfit, ... Following is a brief description of the actuating devices ..."
3. American Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher in American by Henry Barnard, American Journal of Education (1876)
"TUE actuating PRINCIPLE OF THE REFLECTIVE FACULTIES: INQUIRY. ... As an impelling
and actuating force, inquiry, or inquisition, performs for the ..."
4. Crabb's English Synonyms by George Crabb (1917)
"Kleptomania is an irresistible tendency to theft actuating people who are not
tempted to it by necessitous circumstances or any obvious and natural motive, ..."
5. The Essentials of æsthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and by George Lansing Raymond (1921)
"... Gesture—Opening Gesture— Movements of Arms—Gestures Inward and Outward—Dramatic
Gestures—General actuating Motives Represented in the Gestures—Analogous ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"... one end of the cylinder in which the piston works, and to this piston the
connecting rod is directly pivoted, the opposite end actuating the flywheel. ..."
7. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1869)
"... one end of the cylinder in which the piston works, and to this piston the
connecting rod is directly pivoted, the opposite end actuating the i\y- wheel. ..."
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