Sentence examples for would actuate from inspiring English sources

The threshold fire sizes that would actuate ceiling sprinklers at a given ceiling clearances were also computed for growing fires and steady pan fires.

As buildings with a high ceiling clearance are becoming increasingly common, making proper assessments of whether or not the ceiling sprinklers would actuate becomes very critical to designing adequate fire protection systems for such buildings.

No matter how hard you pushed on a key it wouldn't actuate.

The analysis shows that a much smaller fire size than what pan fire tests might indicate would be needed to actuate sprinklers on high ceilings.

Even if the pop off mechanisms were to fail to actuate, the device would continue to provide high flow nasal cannula delivery at levels that are already in wide clinical use.

The tool therefore incorporates two linear actuators to independently actuate the implant feed and the position of the straightening wire.

"We sell products that remotely actuate, erm, 'marital aids', from within the virtual world.

That message was that technology offered mankind the chance to actuate its potential.

Nonpacifists would conclude that pacifist or nonviolent methods can be effective only against a power that has no very strong motives for going to extremes of suppression or one that is governed at least in part by the same moral scruples that actuate the pacifists themselves.

It still uses pushrods, rather than overhead cams, to actuate the 16 valves -- 2 for each cylinder.

Nick Clegg (Britain must have a new election, 4 July) says a general election must be held before any attempt is made to actuate article 50.