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activity

[ ak-tiv-i-tee ]

noun

plural activities.
  1. 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.

  2. a specific deed, action, function, or sphere of action:

    social activities.

  3. work, especially in elementary grades at school, that involves direct experience by the student rather than textbook study.
  4. energetic activity; animation; liveliness.
  5. a use of energy or force; an active movement or operation.
  6. normal mental or bodily power, function, or process.
  7. Physical Chemistry. the capacity of a substance to react, corrected for the loss of reactivity due to the interaction of its constituents.
  8. Physics.
    1. the number of atoms of a radioactive substance that disintegrate per unit of time, usually expressed in curies.
  9. an organizational unit or the function it performs.


activity

/ æˈɪɪɪ /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being active
  2. lively action or movement
  3. any specific deed, action, pursuit, etc

    recreational activities

  4. the number of disintegrations of a radioactive substance in a given unit of time, usually expressed in curies or disintegrations per second
    1. the capacity of a substance to undergo chemical change
    2. 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
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ԴDz··پ··ٲ noun plural nonactivities
  • ··پ··ٲ noun plural preactivities
  • ···پ··ٲ noun plural superactivities
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of activity1

First recorded in 1520–30; from Middle French or directly from Medieval Latin 峦ī; active, -ity
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The group included cases “unrelated to any protests” that have to do with “potential criminal activity.”

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He spoke to masked men selling drugs out in the open and carrying large weapons - they explained that teenagers as young as 13 had sometimes become involved in criminal activity in the favela.

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The court papers about Yang Tengbo's alleged activities in the UK are becoming public after a legal battle including other media outlets for more transparency in the semi-secret case.

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As part of his martial law order, Yoon banned all political activity and placed the media under military control.

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He also cannot promote any criminal street gang or gang activity and can’t use hand signs or terminology that promotes a street gang.

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