0 the state of doing nothing: --
Inactivity contributes to weakness, fatigue and sleeplessness.
a period of inactivity
1 the situation when not much is happening, for example when not much buying or selling is taking place: --
In fact, it is not the recurrence of drought but, rather, the recurrence of major volcanic activity (or inactivity) that produces this anomaly.
During the experiments, the microorganisms were subjected to freezing, frozen inactivity and thawing.
Meanwhile, flexible forms of work have grown and are increasingly promoted as promising solutions to the ' problem ' of economic inactivity in later life.
The reasons are not clear, but may involve poor nutritional habits, physical inactivity, heavy smoking and long-term exposure to psychoactive drugs.
Likewise, the report does not include a review of preventive measures such as interventions against risk factors like overweight or inactivity.
Such an inhibitory mechanism would help the brain go into a cortical idling mode during periods of mental inactivity.
The design fluency is dependent on the fractional inactivity time, which is a relative measure of inactivity to activity.
These constraints make directly conflicting requirements, but still the domination of one by the other is not tantamount to the inactivity of the dominated constraint.
