actuator

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From actuate + -or. First attested in 1652.

The Power House guards took out Migul's central actuator--Hah! you might call it his heart!--and he now lies inert in the Power House." — Astounding Stories, June, 1931, Various
Yet in the streets of the town there was a village rudeness of construction which no pioneering effort could quite efface: a wide main street that gleamed red in the sunlight on which three caterpillar tractors stood stalled, their guard rails caked with yellow mud; a pool of stagnant black water with a wooden plank thrown haphazardly across it; a discarded fuel container upended against a half-rusted away metal cable, and the remnants of an hydraulic actuator overgrown with hardy lichens that had colored it yellow and ash gray. — Space Station 1, Frank Belknap Long

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