gating

基本解释

Teams can even use static testing of the use case as a gating mechanism.
团队甚至可以将用例的静态测试作为一个闸门机制。
There's no worry about collecting the tusk before the key, because the door to the museum is the gating mechanism.
你不需要担心那象牙之前的钥匙，因为你如果你要进博物馆，你必须拿到钥匙，而这扇门就是博物馆的闸门机制。
And this fact may explain some of the findings regarding it, she believes—for example, why treatment with it improved sensory gating in nonsmoking subjects, but not in smokers.
这个事实可以解释有关它的一些发现，她相信----例如，为什么用该药物可以改善非吸烟实验对象的感觉门控，但是对吸烟者无效。

By gating the experience, you had to be a T customer to own one.
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Apparently the gating factor for an iTelevision introduction as put forth by analysts is the expense involved.
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A gate is a structure like a door which is used at the entrance to a field, a garden, or the grounds of a building.
In an airport, a gate is a place where passengers leave the airport and get on their aeroplane.
The gate is the total amount of money that is paid by the people who go to a sports match or other event.
to provide with a gate or gates
the channels by which molten metal is poured into a mould