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underactuating

underactuating is the present participle and gerund 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 underactuating

What is underactuating the present participle and gerund of?
Underactuating is the present participle and gerund of underactuate.

Words near underactuating in the dictionary

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

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