Meaning & use
Tactor
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A small device that produces a vibration or other tactile sensation against the skin, used in haptic feedback technology.
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The wearable vest contained a grid of tactors that buzzed to signal the direction of an obstacle.
Researchers placed a tactor on the fingertip to test how quickly subjects noticed the vibration.
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The term blends "tactile" with the agentive suffix "-or," and is mostly confined to engineering and human-computer interaction research.
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haptic actuator
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