de•ac•ti•va•tion
We found 4 definitions of deactivation from 3 different sources.
NounPlural: deactivations |
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deactivation - the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb) | ||
defusing | ||
ending, termination, conclusion the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" | ||
deactivation - breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges) | ||
inactivation | ||
dismission, sacking, liberation, dismissal, firing, discharge, sack, release coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | ||
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |