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Definition: Activator |
ActivatorNoun1. Any agency bringing about activation; (biology) a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | Highly silicious soils may be hydrophyllic so that they adhere poorly to bitumen unless an -- is added. Source: European Union. (references) |
Chemical Industry | Compound which intensifies the effect of an initiator. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | A chemical added to a pesticide to increase its activity. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | An impurity, or displaced atom, which increases the luminescence efficiency of a material to be used as a scintillating material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A substance which when added to a mineral pulp promotes flotation in the presence of a collecting agent. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. In flotation, a chemical added to the pulp to increase the floatability of a mineral in a froth or to refloat a depressed (sunk) mineral. Also called activating reagent b. A reagent that affects the surface of minerals in such a way that it is easy for the collector atoms to become attached. It has the opposite effect of a depressor. CF:depressor c. A substance that is required in trace quantities to impart luminescence to certain crystals d. Ions that are photon emitters e. Any agent that causes activation. See also:activating age. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Synonyms by domain: accelerator (mining), activating agent (mining, meteorology & standards), adhesion agent (building & civil engineering, transportation), adhesion promoting agent, antistripping agent, anti-stripping agent, promotor (industry, meteorology & standardschemical industry). |
| Antonym: inhibitor (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Activator |
| English words defined with "activator": plasminogen activator ♦ tissue plasminogen activator. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "activator": 8-Bromo Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate ♦ Activator Appliances, Anistreplase, Antiplasmin, Apolipoprotein A-I ♦ badam, Batroxobin ♦ Calcium-Binding Proteins, Calmodulin, Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein ♦ FOAM-GUN OPERATOR ♦ Jerry Curl Activator ♦ katapang ♦ NF-kappa B ♦ Pharmaceuticals Manufacturers Association, phorbo 12-myristate 13-acetate, Phorbol 12,13-Dibutyrate, phorbol myristate acetate, Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1, Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 2 ♦ samarium oxide, Serpins ♦ tissue-type plasminogen activator, t-PA, transcription activator ♦ Urinary Plasminogen Activator. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Activator One (1969) | |
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Health | Researchers have found that beta-amyloid is a potent complement activator. (references) | |
These chemicals make it harder for the body to naturally dissolve a clot that has caused a stroke by inactivating anti-clotting factors and inhibiting the release of natural tissue plasminogen activator. (references) | ||
Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) is a genetically engineered form of t-PA, a thombolytic substance made naturally by the body. It can be effective if given intravenously within 3 hours of stroke symptom onset, but it should be used only after a physician has confirmed that the patient has suffered an ischemic stroke. (references) | ||
Economic History | India | Opportunities also exists for relaxin, rennin, clot-dissolving agents, insulin, interferons, interleukins and anticancer therapeutics, human growth hormones, erythropoietin, blood factors VIII & XI, urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator, streptokinase tissue necrosis factor. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Activator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Activator" is used about 283 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 283 | 17,340 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "activator": Activator Appliances ♦ plasminogen activator ♦ Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1 ♦ Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 2 ♦ tissue plasminogen activator ♦ transcription activator ♦ Urinary Plasminogen Activator. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "activator": trans-activator. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "activator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 活化计. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | aktivator (actuator, promoter), accelerator (accelerator, particle accelerator, promotor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | activator, promotor (doctoral thesis supervisor, promoter, promotor, promotor site, sponsor, supervisor, supervisor of a Ph.D.student), embryonale activator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aktivoiva aine tuikeaineessa, aktivaattori, kiihdyte (accelerator, catalyst, catalyst promoter, promoter, promotor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | additif d'adhésivité, activateur embryonnaire, activateur (accelerator), activant (activating, activating agent), accélérateur (accelerant, accelerative, accelerator, accelerator pedal), promoteur (accelerator), durcisseur (accelerator), dope d'adhésivité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Aktivierungsmittel (energizer), aktivierende Mittel (activating agent), Aktivator, Promotor (enhancer, promoter, promotor, promotor site), Härter (curing agent, flintier, harder, steelier, tougher), embryonaler Aktivator, Beschleuniger (accelerator, accelerators, catalyst, catalysts, promoter), belebende Mittel (activating agent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ενεργοποιόσ, ενεργοποιός ουσία, ενεργοποιητής τοξοπλασματικών αντισωμάτων, ενεργοποιητής (actuator), εμβρυικός ενεργοποιητής, επιταχυντής (accelerator, promotor), διεγέρτης (active aerial, active antenna, driven aerial, driven antenna, exciter, primary radiator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penggiat (motivating force), penggerak (booster, moving spirit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | attivatore (enhancer, inducer of enzyme systems, initiator), attivanti (activating agent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 活性剤 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かっせいざい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 활성 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | activatoray ativador (acceptor, activating), activador (activate, energizer), promotor (federal securities, forwarder, instigator, orinasal, promoter, promotor, promotor site, prosecutor, public defender). (various references) активизатор (energizer). (various references) activador (accelerator, actor, energizer, trigger). (various references) aktivator (catalyst promoter, promoter), accelerator (accelerator, promotor), promotor (catalyst promoter, matchmaker, promoter, promotion-man, promotor, promotor site). (various references) активатор (promoter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "activator": activators. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "activator": deactivator. (additional references) | |
Words containing "activator": deactivators. (additional references) | |
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"Activator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: activat, activatory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "activator" (pronounced a"ktuvā'ter) |
| 5 | -u v ā' t er | elevator, excavator, innovator, renovator. |
| 3 | -ā' t er | accelerator, accumulator, actuator, administrator, agitator, alligator, allocator, alternator, animator, applicator, appropriator, arbitrator, aviator, calculator, carburetor, cogenerator, collaborator, commentator, communicator, conciliator, consolidator, coordinator, decorator, defibrillator, demonstrator, denominator, detonator, educator, escalator, evaporator, exterminator, fabricator, facilitator, generator, gladiator, illuminator, illustrator, imitator, incinerator, incubator, indicator, infiltrator, instigator, insulator, integrator, interrogator, investigator, irrigator, legislator, liquidator, litigator, locator, manipulator, mediator, Moderator, modulator, navigator, negotiator, operator, originator, oscillator, percolator, perpetrator, radiator, refrigerator, regulator, respirator, simulator, speculator, stimulator, syndicator, Terminator, ventilator, violator. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-o-r-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: aviator, citator, ricotta. | |
-3 letters: aortic, atavic, caviar, cavort, cottar, cravat, ottava, tricot, viator, victor. | |
-4 letters: acari, actor, aorta, atria, attar, attic, carat, coati, coria, cotta, ottar, ratio, riata, tacit, taroc, tarot, tatar, tiara, toric, tract, trait, triac, varia, vatic, vicar, vitta. | |
-5 letters: acta, airt, arco, aria, arvo, cart, ciao, coat, coir, iota, orca, otic, raia, rato, riot, rota, roti, taco, tact, taro, tart, tiro, toit, tora, torc, tori, tort, trio, trot, vair, vara, vita. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-o-r-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: activators, captivator. | |
+2 letters: captivators, deactivator, vaticinator. | |
+3 letters: deactivators, reactivation, vaticinators. | |
+4 letters: comparativist, radioactivity, ratiocinative, reactivations. | |
+5 letters: comparativists, overarticulate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 74 69 76 61 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. - .. ...- .- - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c t i v a t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0074 0069 0076 0061 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356986758867868184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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