active agent

1. 1.

   chemical agent capable of activity

   Synonymsactive

   Broaderchemical agent

Questions about active agent

What does active agent mean?

active agent means "chemical agent capable of activity".

What is another word for active agent?

Close synonyms include active. 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.

Is active agent a common word?

active agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.