Word origin · etymology
Latin-derived English noun, technically repurposed.
Activation is making active, from active. The chart borrows this wording for the marking of a gate by a planetary placement.
How we know · epistemology
Positional assignment rule
An activation records that a selected planet falls within a gate sector. It is evidence of that mapping only; determining channels, centers or type requires subsequent graph rules rather than counting the activation as a complete connection.
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