What is "latching"

Usage examples of "latching".

He had rigged the bridge for dive, with the exception of latching up the final clamshell and shutting the upper hatch to the bridge-access tunnel.

USS ronald reagan Commander Jim Collins taxied the F-14 to the number one catapult while latching his oxygen mask to his flight helmet, the word MUGSY printed in block letters above the visor of the helmet.

Ship Commander Sun Yang broke into the room, the door slamming against the bulkhead, the tilt of the ship keeping the door from latching open, as Yang stared at Chu.

SCRAM Breaker--A circuit breaker that interrupts power to the latching electromagnets of the control rod drive mechanisms.

It swept at her as she cut through the root, almost latching onto her own spirit.

Ander Elessedil closed the door to the cottage that had housed the Order of the Chosen, latching it firmly for the final time.

This kid latching on to her, thinking he was some kind of protector even though it looked as if he were the one who needed to be rescued.

Miss Pittard pushed herself up and looked around her, her gaze immediately latching onto Ryder.

If, despite everything, a U-boat did succeed in latching onto a convoy, it was not itself allowed to attack but had to maintain contact and report position, course and speed by radioed short-code signal to the C-in-C U-boats, who would call up all the boats within reach.

He had rigged the bridge for dive, with the exception of latching up the final clamshell and shutting the upper hatch to the bridge-access tunnel.

Even worse, if they hit the pod at a wrong angle, rather than latching on, the grapplers could ricochet off the vessel, sending it tumbling in another direction and doing even more damage to the already battered team aboard.

As he spoke, he pulled the door closed on the chamber's counterbalanced hinges and it clicked true with a solid latching sound.

Metal wailed and it came away with him as Blum, more conventional, pulled the lever on his own door to disengage the latching mechanism, twisted, and shouldered it open.

He moved to the end of the barn, sliding closed the barn door Jess had left ajar, latching it, and then grabbing some of the baling twine Mark habitually looped around the bars of the hay stall to secure the inner handles.

It is the party animal of the atomic world, latching on to many other atoms (including itself) and holding tight, forming molecular conga lines of hearty robustness—.