Other forms: activations
Activation is the act of setting something working. Card activation, activation code, activation of the alarm.
It is the word for the moment a thing that already exists starts working: a bank card exists before activation and does nothing until it. In biology it is the switching on of a gene or a cell, which is most of how a body responds to anything.
1nounactivationThe act of setting something working.
“The alarm's activation woke the whole street at three in the morning.”
activation is a starting.
From activate, from Latin actus, a doing, from agere, to drive or do.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂eǵ-
Middle English
actyf
English
active
English, today
activation
Built from
From active + -ation. From active or activate + -ation active comes from Middle English actyf. From Middle English actyf, from Old French actif, from Latin activus, from ago (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₂éǵeti. by surface analysis, en + act + ive.
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