English Online Dictionary. What means activity? What does activity mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle French activité, from Latin activitas. Equivalent to active + -ity.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ækˈtɪv.ɪ.tiː/
- (US) IPA(key): /ækˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/, [ækˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi], /ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/, [ækˈtɪv.ə.ɾi]
- Rhymes: -ɪvɪti
Noun
activity (countable and uncountable, plural activities)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.
- (countable) Something done as an action or a movement.
- Synonyms: pursuit, undertaking; see also Thesaurus:activity
- (countable) Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
- (physics) The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
- The property of substances to react with other substances
Antonyms
- rest
- passivity
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Further reading
- “activity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “activity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.