Usually means: Devices that secure doors closed.
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  1. latches: Merriam-Webster
  2. latches: Collins English Dictionary
  3. latches: Vocabulary.com
  4. Latches, latches: Wordnik
  5. latches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. latches: Wiktionary
  7. latches: Dictionary.com
  8. latches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. latches: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. latches: Legal dictionary

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  1. latches: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See latch as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (LATCH)

verb:  To close or lock as if with a latch.
verb:  (transitive) To catch; lay hold of.
verb:  (databases) To use a latch (kind of lightweight lock).
noun:  A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
noun:  (electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
noun:  (obsolete) A latching.
noun:  (obsolete) A crossbow.
noun:  (obsolete) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
noun:  A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
noun:  (databases) A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.
verb:  (obsolete) To smear; to anoint.
noun:  (automotive) Acronym of lower anchors and tethers for children.
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