ACTUATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does actuated mean? 

• ACTUATED (adjective)
  The adjective ACTUATED has 1 sense:

1. moved to action

  Familiarity information: ACTUATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACTUATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moved to action

Context example:

a man actuated by unworthy desired

Similar:

motivated (provided with a motive or given incentive for action)

 Context examples 

A light actuated film was shaped into a ring and mounted on a needle post.

(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A switch designed to be actuated by foot pressure.

(Foot Switch Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

When actuated by selfish and vicious motives, I asked you to undertake my unfinished work, and I renew this request now, when I am only induced by reason and virtue.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Elizabeth, though expecting no less, thanked him with tears of gratitude; and all three being actuated by one spirit, everything relating to their journey was speedily settled.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As I have mentioned to Miss Trotwood, I am actuated by no mercenary considerations; few men are less so, I believe; but Mr. Jorkins has his opinions on these subjects, and I am bound to respect Mr. Jorkins's opinions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That Miss Crawford should endeavour to secure a meeting between him and Mrs. Rushworth, was all in her worst line of conduct, and grossly unkind and ill-judged; but she hoped he would not be actuated by any such degrading curiosity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He had inquired after her, she found, slightly, as might suit a former slight acquaintance, seeming to acknowledge such as she had acknowledged, actuated, perhaps, by the same view of escaping introduction when they were to meet.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The light actuated materials created in this study are based on the principle of the Curie temperature—the temperature above which certain materials will change their magnetic properties.

(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Materials used to create the light actuated materials include polydimethylsoloxane (PDMS), which is a widely used transparent elastomer often shaped into flexible films, and silk fibroin, which is a versatile biocompatible material with excellent optical properties that can be shaped into a wide range of forms—from films to gels, threads, blocks and sponges.

(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

One of the advantages of these materials is that we can selectively activate portions of a structure and control them using localized or focused light and unlike other light actuated materials based on liquid crystals, these materials can be fashioned to move either toward, or away from the direction of the light.

(New Materials Developed by Scientists Able to Move in Response to Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)