latch

cerrar con pestillo

Cerrar una puerta o verja y asegurarla con un pestillo u otro cierre parecido.

En inglés sencillo: To close a door or gate and secure it with a small bar or similar fastening.

• Please latch the gate.
• She latched the door before going upstairs.
• Did you remember to latch the window?

Cómo se usa: latch something shut (Please latch the garden gate shut.)

Sinónimos: fasten, secure

Antónimos: unlatch

Expresiones frecuentes: latch the gate, latch the door, latch something shut

pestillo, picaporte

Pequeña barra que mantiene cerrada una puerta o verja y se levanta para abrirla.

En inglés sencillo: A small bar that holds a door or gate closed and can be lifted to open it.

• Lift the latch to open the gate.
• The door latch clicked into place.
• We replaced the broken latches on both windows.

Sinónimos: catch

Expresiones frecuentes: door latch, gate latch, lift the latch

latch, cerrojo lógico

Circuito electrónico que guarda una señal y puede cambiar su valor mientras la señal de control está activa.

En inglés sencillo: An electronic circuit that stores a signal and can change while its control signal stays active.

• The latch stores one bit.
• This latch changes its output while the enable signal is active.
• The engineer added two latches to the circuit.

Expresiones frecuentes: digital latch, data latch, latch circuit