activation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

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Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.

Latin āctīvusbor.

Old French actifbor.

Middle English actyf

English active

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

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English active

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātuslbor.

English -ate

English activate

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English -ation

English -ion

English activation

From active or activate + -ation

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæktɪˈveɪʃn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæktəˈveɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• 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 phrase
• activation record
• activation syndrome
• alloactivation
• autoactivation
• biactivation
• bioactivation
• cat activation noise
• 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:

  Latin: 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)):

  (file)

Noun

activation f (plural activations)

1. activation

Further reading

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