What is called as action in Guitar terminology?

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Action is a measure of distance between the strings and fretboard. Commonly guitar necks after some time bend a bit due to multiple cycles of thermal expansion and contraction. This leads to a change in action. Guitars may give a buzzing sound indicating that the string is touching some extra fret in...
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Action is a measure of distance between the strings and fretboard. Commonly guitar necks after some time bend a bit due to multiple cycles of thermal expansion and contraction. This leads to a change in action. Guitars may give a buzzing sound indicating that the string is touching some extra fret in between. A low action guitar would be easier to play/press but would be more prone to bending issues. A high action guitar will not usually buzz but on frets say 9 onwards would be difficult to play. (Info given primarily for acoustic guitars) read less
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Distance between strings and a Fretboard.
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Distance between fretboard and the strings
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In simple words, action is the gap between the strings and fretboard of the guitar.
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Action is the distance between the guitar strings and the Fretboard.
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