Some sentence examples which use the word 'actuate'
Electricity actuates the engine.
If long circuits were worked direct with ordinary instruments, high battery power would be required in order to send sufficient Single current to actuate the apparatus.
17), which actuate the movable slides, have heads divided into 100 parts, one revolution = 0.5 mm.; so that ten revolutions are = 5 mm., or = the interval between two adjacent reseau-lines, or = the interval between the sides of the " fixed square."