Latch

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A latch or catch (called sneck in Northern England and Scotland) is a type of mechanical fastener that joins two or more objects or surfaces while allowing for their regular separation. A latch typically engages another piece of hardware on the other mounting surface.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Latch”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Dave&Lynne Slater from Cumbria, United kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.