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Examples of locked

locked

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

If the drawer is locked, the robot would try to open it exerting more and more force, until its force limits would be reached.
These included the availability of low secure or locked ward beds in local hospitals and a measure of ethnic origin.
This was done in a locked office on a stand-alone computer that was not connected to the local or wide area network.
This in turn should provide the opportunity to generate shorter mode locked pulses.
For example, suppose you try to rush through a door that has always been unlocked only to find it is locked.
I show that an agent who is concerned about minimizing forecast errors may inadvertently become "locked-in" to an extrapolative forecast.
It means that the end-effector can move when the active links are locked.
Inside the harbour, the analytical expressions for the locked long waves are obtained.
In the higher frequency range both locked and free long waves could be resonated.
Therefore, when all of them meet at a common point while all the actuators are locked, the end-effector cannot sustain the applied moments.
It puts more emphasis on seeking how to avoid getting locked into trajectories that we do not like (the blind alleys of biological evolution).
The vast majority of the mentally ill, they asserted, had been locked away only after they had committed some violent crime.
Some of the strategies used to avoid locked access to nodes are described below.
The boys could not bathe, because the staff kept the shower rooms locked.
Traps were locked in the open position when not in use.
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