action mechanism

1. 1.

   the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

   “the piano had a very stiff action”

   Synonymsaction

   Broadermechanism

   Narrowergunlockmovementpiano actionpump action

   Part ofgunkeyboard

   Partskey

Questions about action mechanism

What does action mechanism mean?

action mechanism means "the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism".

What is another word for action mechanism?

Close synonyms include action. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is action mechanism a common word?

action mechanism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.