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latch | American Dictionary

latch
noun[ C ]
us/lætʃ/
a fastening device for a door or gate

latch

verb[ I/T ]us/lætʃ/
[ T ]Make sure the cabinet door is latched so the cat can’t get in.

Examples of latch

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Accordingly, he latches on to the aspects of her performance that reveal her difference from the local song she performs.
Palatal clefting prevents the baby from latching on to the breast as suction cannot be developed.
The clock signal must be implemented so that it arrives simultaneously at all latches, that is, with negligible delays when compared to the clock period.
Clearly, then, there are reasons why early photography latched on to older people in fishing communities.
In these joint designs, both the latches and the springs are forced with cyclic load.
One variety latches onto a purpose intention that legislatures are asserted to have with regard to statutes.
The media just latched on to an exciting idea and pushed it onto society without significant evidence.
More precisely, with the same notation, all latches are systematically operated in such a way as to ensure that logical variables x are stable when variables e are falling.
In an earlier scheme, an angle was to have been welded to this channel to act as a striking plate for a cylindrical latch.
Although chosen here as an example, the latch shows properties that are encountered quite generally in looped devices.
The latch was created into a hierarchy block, and placed inside another schematic called 'overall'.
The latch thus appears to couple nucleotide binding and hydrolysis to topology modification events.
In the particular case of the latch just described, the operation can only cause a problem when e is falling.
Do their turns latch or overlap, or are there pauses between them?
If the latch is later disengaged, the spring will push the blocks back to the left.
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