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Definition of Activated
1. Adjective. (of sewage) treated with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition.
2. Adjective. (of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive.
3. Adjective. Rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive.
4. Adjective. (military) set up and placed on active assignment. "A newly activated unit"
Similar to: Active
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
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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