actuating

1. 1.

   causing motion or action or change

   Synonymsactivating

   Similarcausative

Questions about actuating

What does actuating mean?

actuating means "causing motion or action or change".

How many syllables are in actuating?

actuating has 4 syllables: ac-tu-a-ting. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for actuating?

Close synonyms include activating. 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 actuating a common word?

actuating 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.