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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
detent .
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Examples
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The aerospace theme continues inside with big, square aluminum switches in a row—a classic cue, for Alfisti—situated mid-dash, below the audio switch panel and above the three climate dials, which are big, hefty and detented like a socket wrench.
Alfa Romeo Readies a Stirring Stateside Return Dan Neil 2011
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Alfa Romeo The aerospace theme continues inside with big, square aluminum switches in a row, situated mid-dash, below the audio switch panel and above the three climate dials, which are big, hefty and detented.
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America, the adversaries of detented, the advocates of a return to the cold war are becoming more active.
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The lever offers pad contact and lever travel adjustments, which are now detented so they won't rattle and change your settings.
Singletrack World 2010
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The mouse will come along with Intellipoint software that will assist in creating and assigning macros, features wide, detented scroll wheel for more precise click movement and low-profile lateral side buttons for easy access during gaming and everyday computing.
BlogHASH 2009
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The scroll wheel / middle button as usual is centred between the two mouse buttons, is detented and offers good control.
CNET Australia 2008
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The scroll wheel / middle button as usual is centred between the two mouse buttons, is detented and offers good control.
CNET Australia 2008
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Precision detented level controls, power switch, power LED, and six LEDs, which indicate signal, clip and fault for each channel
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The manny-tranny in my Cooper S is left and up, with a solidly detented gate, so no mis-shift worries for me.
The Truth About Cars 2008
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