activity
Activity (Latin activus "active, effective") stands for:
- Activity , human action
- Activity (psychology) , a rather immediate activity of an organism or a person triggered by internal conditions
- Activity (chemistry) , a thermodynamic quantity
- Activity (physics) , physical quantity as a description of a radioactive substance
- Activity (UML) , in the Unified Modeling Language a model element for specifying the behavior of a system
- Catalyst activity , a kinetic variable in biochemistry and catalyst technology
- the smallest execution unit in workflows, see workflow management
- a term of activity analysis
- Physical activity , the physical movement that a person performs himself
- Intrinsic activity , in pharmacodynamics a measure of the effectiveness in changing cell function that results from the binding of a ligand to a receptor
- Electrodermal activity , a short-term decrease in the electrical resistance of the skin, caused by the typical increase in sympathetic tone in emotional-affective reactions
- Star activity , in molecular biology the ability of a restriction enzyme, under special conditions, to bind to DNA other than the standard recognition sequences and to cleave them there
- Optical activity , property of some transparent materials to rotate the direction of polarization of light
- Biological activity , the totality of biological processes taking place in the soil
See also:
- Aktivitas (student members of student associations)
- Activation (disambiguation)
Wiktionary: Activity - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
