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activate
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activate

(1) See trigger.

(2) To interact with an activation server at the time copy-protected software is installed. The install program generates a code that is sent to the activation server, which responds with an authorization code that allows the software to operate. Without the authorization code, the software generally times out.


activate [′ak·tə‚vāt]
(electricity)
To make a cell or battery operative by addition of a liquid.
(electronics)
To treat the filament, cathode, or target of a vacuum tube to increase electron emission.
(engineering)
To set up conditions so that the object will function as designed or required.
(nucleonics)
To induce radioactivity through bombardment by neutrons or by other types of radiation.
(ordnance)
To bring into existence by official order a unit, post, camp, station, base, or shore activity which has previously been constituted and designated by name or number, or both, so that it can be organized to function in its assigned capacity.
To prepare for active service a naval ship or craft which has been in an inactive or reserve status.
(physics)
To start activity or motion in a device or material.


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The false activations were blamed on dirt and mud that has collected among the rocks, known as ballast, that support the railroad tracks.
One group was prepared for the downhill session with a prior bout of maximal eccentric exercise--100 maximal, eccentric activations of the knee extensors in the dominant leg two weeks before the run.
Net postpaid activations totaled 16,000 in the fourth quarter, an increase of 6 percent from the prior year, on the strength of higher gross activations and lower churn of 1.
 
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