Those M&D words: Gating

[Ya Sam]

"With the proper deployment of Spring Constants and Magnetickal Gating, 
Power may be borrow'd, as needed, against repayment dates deferrable 
indefinitely."


tr.v. gat·ed, gat·ing, gates
...

2. Electronics To select part of (a wave) for transmission, reception, or 
processing by magnitude or time interval.

The term appeared in the 20th century according to my SOED. Is it a blatant 
anachronism, or maybe the term was used in the 18th century with some 
different meaning?

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