A nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion

Usage examples of effector.

If you knew the secret, you could access the Qeng Ho localizers directly, let the localizers sense your body position, interpret the proper codings, and respond with built-in effectors.

When a muscle is stretched, the proprioceptive nerve endings within it are the receptors of a reflex arc of which the effectors act to bring about a contraction that tends to counteract whatever force is bringing about the stretching.

It has the extrasensory capacities to track them and the transvolutionary effectors to pursue them anywhere.

They are able to fly the way they do because they can reach through the interface with their transport vector effectors to synchronize the vibrations and cause the particles to make each return to a slightly different position.

More common is the three-neuron reflex arc, in which the receptor neuron is connected to an effector neuron by means of an intermediate neuron called the connector neuron.

Then, as it moved forward, he realized that it was only quasi-human: a functional upright biped chassis, with data-receptors mounted at the top, effectors and proprioceptors mounted in a downward worm that ended in floor-grippers.

I hooked the broadcaster in parallel with the effector circuits, so the computer's output not only controlled the boat as usual but also modulated the radio emission.

By contrast the key feature of a fully developed nervous system is its specificity, the precise set of connections by which a signal beginning at a particular sensory cell runs in a defined route, ending in some effector cell, a private line, essentially insulated from the multitude of other neurons within the system.