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Meaning of activation in English
(Definition of activation from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of activation
activation
Some charge activation fees, monthly maintenance fees, cash withdrawal fees, reloading fees and inactivity fees.
From TIME
The activation of the light itself has nothing to do with the activation of the trigger.
From Dallas Morning News
Many mental processes or capacities depend on patterns of activation in specific areas of the brain.
From NPR
Long-term activation of the immune system, as in autoimmune disease, also seems to go along with depression.
From Huffington Post
Given the way brains work, the activation of one worldview will inhibit the other worldview.
From Huffington Post
Health institutions may opt for or against activation.
From Reuters
Meanwhile, in women who were obese, the brain reward systems had lower neural activation.
From Huffington Post
In the women who were anorexic, the reward systems in their brains had higher neural activation.
From Huffington Post
Such activation, we may say, is a necessary condition of addiction.
From NPR
This is important because people with greater activation of the left prefrontal cortex recover more rapidly from negative emotions such as anger, disgust, and fear.
From Huffington Post
We also ignored the standard activation fees, as carriers pretty frequently remove them during promotions.
From The Verge
Now strategic activation and engagement are critical, and for that, true collaboration is vital.
From VentureBeat
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Collocations with activation
activation
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automatic activation
Such automatic activation is most apparent when inhibitory control is lacking, either following brain insult or during early infancy.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
cortical activation
It may be that threat simulations are associated with increased cortical activation, leading to intensive motor imagery that breaks through the malfunctioning inhibitory mechanisms.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
differential activation
Within a given belief system, individual differences can emerge as a consequence of differential activation of these various mechanisms.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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Translations of activation
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