activation

Other forms of activation

plural

activations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about activation

What does activation mean?

activation means "stimulation of activity in an organism or chemical". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in activation?

activation has 4 syllables: ac-ti-va-tion. The stress falls on "va". In IPA it is /ˌæktəˈveɪʃən/.

What is another word for activation?

Close synonyms include energizing, activating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of activation?

The recorded antonyms are inactivation, deactivation.

Is activation a common word?

activation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with activation?

19 words rhyme with activation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.