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activity
[ ak-tiv-i-tee ]
noun
- the state or quality of being active:
There was not much activity in the stock market today. He doesn't have enough physical activity in his life.
- a specific deed, action, function, or sphere of action:
social activities.
- work, especially in elementary grades at school, that involves direct experience by the student rather than textbook study.
- energetic activity; animation; liveliness.
- a use of energy or force; an active movement or operation.
- normal mental or bodily power, function, or process.
- Physical Chemistry. the capacity of a substance to react, corrected for the loss of reactivity due to the interaction of its constituents.
- Physics.
- the number of atoms of a radioactive substance that disintegrate per unit of time, usually expressed in curies.
- an organizational unit or the function it performs.
activity
/ æˈɪɪɪ /
noun
- the state or quality of being active
- lively action or movement
- any specific deed, action, pursuit, etc
recreational activities
- the number of disintegrations of a radioactive substance in a given unit of time, usually expressed in curies or disintegrations per second
- the capacity of a substance to undergo chemical change
- the effective concentration of a substance in a chemical system. The absolute activity of a substance B, λ B , is defined as exp (μ B RT ) where μ B is the chemical potential
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz··پ··ٲ noun plural nonactivities
- ··پ··ٲ noun plural preactivities
- ···پ··ٲ noun plural superactivities
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Higher interest rates dampen activity, helping to keep prices stable.
Red Roses full-back Emma Sing was not expecting a phone call from head coach John Mitchell while in a crochet class - a favourite activity in England's camp.
"So it suggests that volcanic activity went on in the moon more recently than people had thought".
That was the sobering message that port Executive Director Gene Seroka had Thursday for the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners during an update on port activity.
Many months of activity still lie ahead in the Commons and the Lords, and it is still possible that the bill could fall and not become law at all.
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