Activity (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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.
  6. normal mental or bodily power, function, or process.
  7. the capacity of a substance to react, corrected for the loss of reactivity due to the interaction of its constituents.
  8. Physics.
    • the number of atoms of a radioactive substance that disintegrate per unit of time, usually expressed in curies.
    • radioactivity.
  9. an organizational unit or the function it performs.
noun plural -ties
  1. the state or quality of being active
  2. lively action or movement
  3. any specific deed, action, pursuit, etc
  4. the number of disintegrations of a radioactive substance in a given unit of time, usually expressed in curies or disintegrations per second
    • the capacity of a substance to undergo chemical change
    • 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
Activity (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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