The word "actuated" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb that means "to cause something to move or happen through the application of energy or force." For example, "The software was actuated and the machine began to run."
He was arrested twice but never charged and contended both arrests were "actuated by malice".
A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.The author of this radical, class-conscious vision of society was James Madison, America's fourth* president and co-author of its constitution.
It consists of a pendulum swung on a pivot and actuated by a hand-wound clockwork whose escapement (a motion-controlling device) makes a ticking sound as the wheel passes a pallet.
The piston was first actuated by the ignition of a small charge of gunpowder and then returned to its initial position when the hot gases of combustion cooled, leaving a partial vacuum.
Today a small computer is used as the controller in an NC machine tool, and the program is actuated from computer memory rather than punched paper tape.
In France Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689 1755) argued that natural laws were presocial and superior to those of religion and the state, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 78) postulated a savage who was virtuous in isolation and actuated by two principles "prior to reason": self-preservation and compassion (innate repugnance to the sufferings of others).
A lead from the capacitor goes to one side of the spark coil primary through cam-actuated breaker points or an electronic switching device.
Various methods for the easy removal and accurate setting of the iron culminated in the screw and lever adjustor for the iron and the cam-actuated cap.
Vending machine, coin-actuated machine through which various goods may be retailed.
One type of tool is valve-actuated, another is valveless.
The first known commercial use of vending machines came early in the 18th century in England, where coin-actuated "honour boxes" were used to sell snuff and tobacco.
