Definition of "reactivation" [reactivation]

• The activation of something previously inactive or inactivated. (noun)

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• "I was on another blog where they provided scientific data that scent lok suits do not work wet and that the temperature necessary for reactivation is much higher than a household dryer could produce."
• "The call for tolerance, to strip away pre-given assumptions and to make full disclosure by way of reactivation, is the very Logic we are now using."
• "But the disease arises from the same conditions that cause cold sores: Either a new infection with herpes virus, or the sudden re-awakening - known as "reactivation" - of a herpes infection from where it lies dormant in nerve fibers near the spine."