latch

fermer au loquet

Fermer une porte ou un portail et le maintenir fermé avec un loquet.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : latch something shut (Please latch the garden gate shut.)

Synonymes : fasten, secure

Contraires : unlatch

Expressions courantes : latch the gate, latch the door, latch something shut

loquet

Petite barre qui maintient une porte fermée et qu’on soulève pour l’ouvrir.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : catch

Expressions courantes : door latch, gate latch, lift the latch

verrou logique, bascule à verrouillage

Circuit électronique qui conserve un signal et peut changer de valeur tant que son signal de commande est actif.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : digital latch, data latch, latch circuit