Usually means: Locking mechanism, automatically engages door.
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  1. deadlatch: Merriam-Webster
  2. deadlatch: Wordnik
  3. deadlatch: Wiktionary
  4. Deadlatch: Dictionary.com
  5. Deadlatch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. deadlatch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Deadlatch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. deadlatch: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Deadlatch: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (deadlatch)

noun:  A kind of latch whose bolt may be locked by a detent so that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside by the latch key.

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