kiikku — meaning in English
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English meaning
- latch noun A simple fastening for a door or gate, worked by a bar or lever.
Senses
kiikku is used for these senses in English:
- bistable (computing, electronics) A flip-flop.
- flip-flop (computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory. [from 20th c.]
- latch (electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
latch — full definition
- noun A simple fastening for a door or gate, worked by a bar or lever.
- verb To fasten or close something with a latch.
- verb To grab onto or fix firmly onto something, often figuratively.