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actuator

UK/ˈæk.tjuː.eɪ.tə(ɹ)/US/ˈæk.t͡ʃu.eɪ.tɚ/

actuator noun: something that actuates something else.

Noun

actuator (plural actuators)

  1. Something that actuates something else.
    • The mind is the actuator of the body.
    • […] and God is the Author and Actuator of nature, as well as of grace; […]1652, Anthony Burgesse, Spiritual Refining: or a Treatise of Grace and Assurance, Section V, Sermon XLIII, page 264
  2. 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.
  3. The mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive.
  4. A relay that controls the flow of electricity.

actuator meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu

actuator in Hindi

actuator
संचालक sañcālak

actuator in Tamil

இயக்கி, ஏவி, செயல்படுத்தி, முனைப்பி, வினையாற்றி

actuator in Urdu

مُحَرِک

Examples of actuator in a sentence

  • There's a tiny connecting rod that links the actuator to this valve.
  • Hinge-lever and flextension-type displacement amplification mechanisms are adopted for the multilayer actuators.
  • The dominant concept in high strain actuators is the flextension mechanism.

All 10 example sentences with actuator

Forms of actuator

pluralactuators

Plural of actuator: actuators

Origin of actuator

From actuate + -or. First attested in 1652.

Words formed from actuator

Questions about actuator

What does actuator mean?
Actuator means something that actuates something else.
What is actuator in Hindi?
Actuator in Hindi is संचालक (sañcālak). See Actuator meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is actuator?
Actuator is a noun.
How do you pronounce actuator?
Actuator is pronounced /ˈæk.tjuː.eɪ.tə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of actuator?
The plural of actuator is actuators.

Words near actuator in the dictionary

  1. actuatest
  2. actuateth
  3. actuating
  4. actuation
  5. actuations
  6. actuator
  7. actuatoric
  8. actuatorics
  9. actuators
  10. actuo-
  11. actuopalaeontological

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: actuator (page history and authors); संचालक (Hindi) (page history and authors); actuator (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); actuator (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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