Definition of Activated

1. Adjective. (of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition.

Similar to: Treated

2. Adjective. (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive.
Exact synonyms: Excited
Category relationships: Natural Philosophy, Physics
Similar to: Reactive

3. Adjective. Rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive.
Similar to: Active

4. Adjective. (military) set up and placed on active assignment. "A newly activated unit"

Definition of Activated

1. Verb. (past of activate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Activated

1. activate [v] - See also: activate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Activated

actionees
actioner
actioners
actionfest
actionfests
actioning
actionisms
actionless
actions
actions speak louder than words
activable
activase
activatability
activatable
activate
activated (current term)
activated acetaldehyde
activated amino acid
activated atom
activated carbon
activated carboxylic acid
activated charcoal
activated choline
activated clotting time
activated complex
activated fatty acid
activated glucose
activated macrophage
activated partial thromboplastin time
activated resin

Literary usage of Activated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sewage Disposal by Leonard Parker Kinnicutt (1919)
"The Applicability and Usefulness of the activated sludge Process. The experience of the past few years has made it clear that the activated sludge process ..."

2. Sewerage and Sewage Disposal: A Textbook by Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1922)
"The treatment of sewage by aeration in the presence of such sludge is now generally called activated sludge treatment. In plain sedimentation an opportunity ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"Composition of the Effluent Air from an activated Sludge Tank: FN CRAWFORD AND ... The Aeration of Sewage in the Presence of activated Sludge from the ..."

4. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"The name so far given to this new process is "activated Sludge", and, ... A brief engineering description of the "activated sludge" process is, ..."

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