Meanings
- not comparableNot actuatable.
(g) control means for said switch means for rendering said switch means actuateable or nonactuatable.
1980 December 2, Randy L. Westcott, “Tamper Proof Case for the Protection of Sensitive Papers”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, volume 1001, number 1, page 722 more examples
upon the hammer arriving at full cock the draw rod becomes disengaged with the grip housing and nonactuatable thereby,
1972 April 4, Clarence A. Raville, “Double Action Handgun Apparatus”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 897, number 1Therefore, W is defined as the nonactuatable portion of the DEA (i.e. the amount of DEA material that, although available for actuation, yet, cannot be actuated).
2020 August 24, Carson Farmer, Hector Medina, “Dimensionless parameter-based numerical model for double conical dielectric elastomer actuators”, in Engineering Research Express, volume 2, number 3
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éǵeti
- Proto-Italic*agō
- Latinagō
- Latināctus
- Latināctuō
- Medieval Latināctuātus
- Englishactuate
- Englishactuatable
- Englishnonactuatable
From non- + actuatable.
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