Sentence examples for is latched from inspiring English sources
noun
A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
The chain inside is latched.
The fabricated switch is latched when an applied external acceleration is higher than the threshold value of 43.7 g.
All the contacts and their beams are independent to the proof-mass so as to prevent the contacts from the impact resulting from the rebound or vibration of the proof-mass once the switch is latched.
42 min An incisive ball from Al Hasan Al Yami is latched on to by Al Temyat but his right-footed strike goes a foot wide of Alioum's right-hand post.
Here he is a young man, just passing through, who is latched on to by a group of European émigré nuns who have managed to get past the Berlin Wall and into America and are now trying to build a chapel with no money, just an overpowering faith.
In deepwater and ultra-deepwater drilling operations, the BOP is latched onto a wellhead, situated on the seabed (Huse and Alme 2013).
"Charles is latching onto the buzzwords of the week," Mr. Heaney said.
So, what we end up doing is latching on to people who share our biases and simply read them.
It is not surprising that the junk-stock crowd is latching on to nanotechnology.
MotherNature.com, another struggling e-tailer, is latching on to B2B, too.
And the media is latching on to that story big time.
