The process of making something active or the state of becoming activated or energized.
From Latin actus meaning 'driven' or 'active,' combined with the suffix -fication meaning 'the act or process of making'; it evolved as a technical term for activation processes.
This word appears frequently in chemistry and biochemistry because activation is crucial to understanding why chemical reactions happen—nothing reacts unless it's first 'actified' with enough energy!
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