activation

English

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.

Derived terms

• activational
• activation analysis
• activation energy
• activation function
• activationless
• activation record
• bioactivation
• CH activation
• chemoactivation
• coactivation
• cryoactivation
• deactivation
• health activation
• hyperactivation
• hypoactivation
• inactivation
• metalloactivation
• misactivation
• neuroactivation
• neutron activation analysis
• nonactivation
• overactivation
• photoactivation
• postactivation
• preactivation
• radioactivation
• reactivation
• superactivation
• transactivation
• underactivation

 

Translations

making active

• Bulgarian: активи́ране n (aktivírane)
• Catalan: activació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 激活 (zh) (jīhuó)

• 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
• Italian: attivazione (it)
• Norman: activisâtion f
• Polish: aktywacja (pl), uaktywnianie
• Portuguese: ativação f
• Russian: актива́ция (ru) f (aktivácija), активиза́ция (ru) f (aktivizácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: aktivácija (sh) 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
• Spanish: activación (es)
• Tagalog: sabilos

Anagrams

• cavitation

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.ti.va.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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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.