coactivation
English
Alternative forms
- co-activation
Etymology
co- + activation
Noun
coactivation (countable and uncountable, plural coactivations)
- Activation of two or more things together.
- 1987, Ronald W. Langacker, Foundations of Cognitive Grammar, page 169:
- The coactivation of A and B as the literal and figurative senses of the expression constitutes the recognition of its metaphorical nature.
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- (genetics) A process wherein RNA transcription is increased by a coactivator protein.
- (medicine) The activation of one muscle coordinately with another.
Derived terms
- coactivational
Related terms
- activation
- coactivate
- coactivity
- cocontraction
See also
