
thumb|Opening a captured draw bolt-style latch
thumb|Opening a captured draw bolt-style latch
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. Depending upon the type and design of the latch, this engaged bit of hardware may be known as a keeper or strike.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).