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Noun: deactivation
  1. Breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges)
    - inactivation
     
  2. The act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb)
    - defusing

Derived forms: deactivations

See also: deactivate

Type of: conclusion, discharge, dismissal, dismission, ending, firing, heave-ho, liberation, release, sack, sacking, termination

Antonym: activation

Encyclopedia: Deactivation