auto-activatev.
/ˌɔːtəʊˈaktᵻveɪt/, U.S. /ˌɔdoʊˈæktəˌveɪt/, /ˌɑdoʊˈæktəˌveɪt/ intransitive. To become active automatically. Also transitive: to cause (something) to become active automatically.
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1949 U.S. Patents Q. 79 98/2 On page 3..it is pointed out that the zymogens will auto-activate.
1968 Brit. Patent 1,101,286 1/2 It is another object of this invention to provide a thermal battery that will autoactivate at a predetermined threshold temperature.
1993 Camcorder User Mar. 64 The fader can be set via a menu to auto-activate when recording begins or ends.
2000 R. M. Marston Newnes Linear IC Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) xv. 261 The above technique..can be used to auto-activate a variety of other 555 astable circuits.
2006 K. Suk in F. J. Chen Trends in Brain Mapping Res. iv. 124 The expression of caspase-11 was increased by inflammatory stimuli..and this increase in the expression is believed to auto-activate caspase-11.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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v.1949- to control the point
- to controverse in question
- to converse with books
- to convince any one's belief
- to cook down
- to cook off
- to cook on the front burner
- to cook one's goose
- to cook out
- to cook rarely do one's goose
- to cook the books
- to cook up
- to cook up a storm
- to cook with electricity
- to cook with gas
- to cook with radar
- to cool a person's cares
- to cool it
- to cool one's chaffer
- to cool one's coppers
- to cool one's feet
- to cool one's heels
- to cool one's hooves
- to cool one's jets
- to cool one's toes