activation

English

Pronunciation

From active or activate + -ation

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌæktɪˈveɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæktəˈveɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

activation (countable and uncountable, plural activations)

1. 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.

2. (physics) The process of making a radioisotope by bombarding a stable element with neutrons or protons.
3. (biochemistry) The process by which molecules are made able to react.
4. (marketing) The promotion of a brand through an event or campaign.

   using shopper activation to convert shoppers into buyers

Derived terms

• activational
• activation analysis
• activation energy
• activation function
• activationist
• activationless
• activation record
• activation syndrome
• alloactivation
• autoactivation
• biactivation
• bioactivation
• CH activation
• chemoactivation
• coactivation
• cryoactivation
• deactivation
• health activation
• heteroactivation
• hyperactivation
• hypoactivation
• immunoactivation
• inactivation
• mechanoactivation
• metalloactivation
• misactivation
• multiactivation
• neuroactivation
• neuron activation
• neutron activation analysis
• nonactivation
• overactivation
• phosphoactivation
• photoactivation
• postactivation
• preactivation
• psychoactivation
• radioactivation
• reactivation
• superactivation
• sympathoactivation
• thermoactivation
• time delay toxin activation
• transactivation
• underactivation

Translations

making active

Bulgarian: активи́ране n (aktivírane) Catalan: activació f Chinese: Mandarin: 激活 (zh) (jīhuó) Czech: aktivace (cs) f Esperanto: aktivigo, funkciigo Finnish: aktivointi (fi), aktivaatio French: activation (fr) f Georgian: აქტივაცია (akṭivacia), გააქტიურება (gaakṭiureba) German: Aktivierung (de) f, Aktivieren n Hungarian: aktiválás (hu) Icelandic: virkjun f pl Indonesian: pengaktifan (id), aktivasi (id) Italian: attivazione (it) Norman: activisâtion f Polish: aktywacja (pl), uaktywnianie Portuguese: ativação (pt) f Romanian: activație f, activare (ro) f Russian: актива́ция (ru) f (aktivácija), активиза́ция (ru) f (aktivizácija) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: aktivácija (sh) f Slovak: aktivizácia f Spanish: activación (es) f Tagalog: sabilos Turkish: aktivasyon Ukrainian: актива́ція (uk) f (aktyvácija) Vietnamese: kích hoạt (vi)

making radioisotope

French: activation (fr) German: Aktivierung (de) Italian: attivazione (it) Portuguese: activação Spanish: activación (es)

process through which molecules are made able to react

Finnish: aktivaatio French: activation (fr) Italian: attivazione (it) Portuguese: ativação (pt) Spanish: activación (es) Tagalog: sabilos

Anagrams

• cavitation

French

Etymology

From activer (“to activate”) +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.ti.va.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

activation f (plural activations)

1. activation

Further reading

• “activation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.