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underactuates

underactuates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of underactuate.

Meaning of underactuate

Verb

underactuate (third-person singular simple present underactuates, present participle underactuating, simple past and past participle underactuated)

  1. To make less easily actuated or responsive.
    • The basic idea is to temporarily underactuate the robot system by releasing one of the actuators and to use some additional driving force to guide the parallel kinematic structure through the singularity of type 2.2010, Daniel Schütz, Friedrich M. Wahl, Robotic Systems for Handling and Assembly, →ISBN, page 101

Questions about underactuates

What is underactuates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Underactuates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of underactuate.

Words near underactuates in the dictionary

  1. underactor
  2. underactors
  3. underacts
  4. underactuate
  5. underactuated
  6. underactuates
  7. underactuating
  8. underactuation
  9. underacylated
  10. underacylation
  11. underadditive

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