Sentence examples for self-acting from inspiring English sources
adjective
Acting of or by itself.
Some valves operate automatically; check (or nonreturn) valves, for example, are self-acting and permit flow in one direction only.
After 1825, when the self-acting mule spinner automated the process, spinning 100 pounds of cotton took 135 hours.
It is at Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 7. Advertising can be art too, and Persil's Weisse Dame ads from the 1920s are a classic of the genre: a lady dressed in white, proclaiming the benefits of Germany's self-acting detergent.
It is sometimes called the self-acting needle because no presser is needed; the hook is closed by the pressure of a completed loop on the latch as it rises on the shaft.
Results of a simulation and experimental research on a high-speed cylinder with self-acting impulse valve are presented.
The self-acting valve has a significant influence on the efficiency and reliability of the reciprocating compressor.
"We will call them, and we will tell them where we are going to concentrate our efforts," Jeffrey D. Self, acting deputy chief of the Border Patrol, said in an interview.
The realization of the described bearing system is supported by suggestions for a non-self-acting start-up assistance at low rotation speeds as well as by suggestions for actuation, pre-stressing, sensor and measurement devices as well as system regulation.
Moreover, if I am not alone in the world but there are many noumenal selves acting freely and incorporating their free actions into the experience they construct, then how do multiple transcendentally free agents interact?
That's why we sympathize with this young man, who posted a photo on Reddit Monday of his childhood self acting as an honorary "flower boy" at his uncle's wedding.
A more effective performance might give credibility to Omar's inconsistencies, but Mr. Macdissi's self-conscious acting fails to win any sympathy for his bruised character.
