activating
verb
Meaning
- To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
- To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
- To render more reactive; excite.
- To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
- To render a substance radioactive.
- To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
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