noun.
The state of action; doing.
noun.
Activeness; the quality of acting promptly and energetically.
noun.
An exercise of energy or force; an active movement or operation; a mode or course of action.
noun.
In physical, a term introduced by Sir William Thomson as an equivalent of “rate of doing work,” or the rate per unit of time at which energy is given out by a working system.
noun.
A physical or gymnastic exercise; an agile performance.
noun.
In. psychology, a self-determination of mental process, experienced or inferred, especially characteristic of the conative consciousness.