The activity of causing to have energy and be active

Usage examples of activating.

As they ran, Scott reached for his communicator, flipping the unit open and activating it.

Sewell and Jalal set to activating the hovercraft at the top of a short slope above the water.

Compensator programs shifted her balance, favouring her right leg, activating those left thigh muscles which remained functional.

Our first priority is to inform Admiral Lalwani that Mzu’s gone, so she can start activating our assets to find her.

She has obviously had enough time to learn how to move around without activating any of our tracer programs.

Beaulieu and Sarha were working smoothly together, activating the remaining on board systems.

Apart from activating the platforms’ close-defence weapons, there was little the network controllers could do.

Those out in the spaceport were activating systems, aligning them on the visitor.

There had been some risk of the caustic liquid activating the powdered explosive that was integrated into the material, but he felt the odds to be in his favor.

If he was capable of activating a Tar-Aiym control platform, could she not do the same?

Yen Lo, the activating name, and Ahriman didn’t need to lead him through the haiku.

Evidently, when Martie had used the activating name, Viola Narvilly, Dusty had responded—and the dog, sensing a wrongness in his master, had risen to investigate.

Not even Osir's crew was permitted to live on board, but she was his command post, and he skidded to a halt beside the captain's console, activating his automatic defensive systems.

He was more than half-afraid of how Fleet Central might react to activating his fold-space com but saw no option.

Eight fingers and four thumbs twitched, activating each test circuit in turn, and he noted the results cheerfully.