activation
English
Pronunciation
Noun
activation (countable and uncountable, plural activations)
- Making active and effective; bringing into a state of activity.
- 2021 November 3, “Network News: GA suffers cancellations and delays caused by alarm activations”, in RAIL, number 943, page 17:
- Alarm activations cause the driver to have to stop the train - and in some cases walk back to reset it. The activations caused 1,032 minutes of delays and nine cancellations.
- (physics) The process of making a radioisotope by bombarding a stable element with neutrons or protons.
- (biochemistry) The process by which molecules are made able to react.
- (marketing) The promotion of a brand through an event or campaign.
Derived terms
- activational
- activation analysis
- activation energy
- activation function
- activationist
- activationless
- activation record
- alloactivation
- autoactivation
- biactivation
- bioactivation
- CH activation
- chemoactivation
- coactivation
- cryoactivation
- deactivation
- health activation
- heteroactivation
- hyperactivation
- hypoactivation
- immunoactivation
- inactivation
- mechanoactivation
- metalloactivation
- misactivation
- multiactivation
- neuroactivation
- neutron activation analysis
- nonactivation
- overactivation
- phosphoactivation
- photoactivation
- postactivation
- preactivation
- psychoactivation
- radioactivation
- reactivation
- superactivation
- sympathoactivation
- thermoactivation
- transactivation
- underactivation
Translations
making active
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making radioisotope
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process through which molecules are made able to react
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ak.ti.va.sjɔ̃/
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Further reading
- “activation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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