activities

[ak-tiv-i-tee] Example Sentences

ac·tiv·i·ty

[ak-tiv-i-tee]
noun, plural ac·tiv·i·ties.
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.
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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.
a.
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.
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Origin:
1520–30; (< Middle French ) < Medieval Latin āctīvitās. See active, -ity

non·ac·tiv·i·ty, noun, plural non·ac·tiv·i·ties.
pre·ac·tiv·i·ty, noun, plural pre·ac·tiv·i·ties.
su·per·ac·tiv·i·ty, noun, plural su·per·ac·tiv·i·ties.
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Example Sentences
  • That's good, because she has many activities beyond family responsibilities.
  • Tomorrow, perhaps, countries could be responsible only for the local activities of any global firm active in their territory.
  • One mob recently killed two people that it said had written about the group's activities online.
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