Actuation vs Actuate - What's the difference?
actuation | actuate | Related terms |
The act of putting into motion.
To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
* Johnson
To incite to action; to motivate.
* 1748 . HUME, David Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. 2. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 11.
* Addison
Actuation is a related term of actuate.
As a noun actuation
is the act of putting into motion.As a verb actuate is
to activate, or to put into motion; to animate.actuation
English
Noun
(head)- Although he pressed the button, the actual actuation was done by an immense series of levers and cranks.
actuate
English
Verb
(actuat)- Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
- A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.
- Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.