servo-controlv.
/ˌsəːvəʊkənˈtrəʊl/, U.S. /ˌsərvoʊkənˈtroʊl/ transitive. To control or operate by means of a servomechanism.
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1938 Proc. Inst. Automobile Engineers 32 341 The clutches can be servo controlled from the pre-selector lever under the steering wheel.
1958 Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik 9 300 High spectral purity of the signal has been obtained by servo-controlling the phase a high frequency quartz crystal oscillator through an integrating filter.
1972 Physics Bull. Apr. 232/2 The gratings are ruled in a very uniform layer of aluminium deposited on to an optically flat substrate..using a large precision ruling engine servocontrolled by laser interferometers.
2017 J. Maré Aerospace Actuators 2 (e-book ed.) i Primary flight control actuators..are supplied by hydraulic power and they servo control the position of the driven load.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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