HARNESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harnessed mean? 

• HARNESSED (adjective)
  The adjective HARNESSED has 1 sense:

1. brought under control and put to use

  Familiarity information: HARNESSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARNESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brought under control and put to use

Context example:

the harnessed power of the atom

Similar:

controlled (restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds)

 Context examples 

I have to lift her up, and place her sleeping in the carriage when I have harnessed the horses and made all ready.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The origami pattern "has structural bistability that could be harnessed for metamaterials used in energy trapping or other microelectronic devices."

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

But now a team of researchers have harnessed the power of this humble herb to attack the insect’s larvae before it can spread, using another common ingredient.

(Thyme oil and corn starch prove deadly for mosquito larvae, SciDev.Net)

Tiny defects in the crystalline structure of perovskites, called traps, can cause electrons to get ‘stuck’ before their energy can be harnessed.

(Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost, University of Cambridge)

So he was harnessed in again, and proudly he pulled as of old, though more than once he cried out involuntarily from the bite of his inward hurt.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In his left hand the squire held not only the reins of his own horse but those of a great black war-horse, fully harnessed, which trotted along at his side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He pointed as he spoke, and there was a high crimson curricle coming down the London road, with two bay mares harnessed tandem fashion before it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A second and smaller sled was driven by Mit-sah, and to this was harnessed a team of puppies.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

An interconnected computer network whose combined resources may be harnessed to work on difficult problems.

(Grid, NCI Thesaurus)

Transposon activity is a native tool already present within the plant, which can be harnessed to generate new phenotypes or resistances and complement gene targeting efforts.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)