attovation 

Attovation (noun) refers to technological innovations and scientific breakthroughs that operate at or leverage the attoscale (10^-18) domain, particularly involving attosecond timescales or attometer spatial scales in their core functioning or application.
Attovation can also refer to a revolutionary class of ultrafast, atomic-scale innovations that operate at attosecond precision, unlocking breakthroughs in quantum computing, AI, energy, nanotechnology, and ultrafast communication.

Forms

Verb: attovate (to create or develop attoscale innovations)
Adjective: attovative (relating to or characterized by attovation)

1 .Tech startups focusing on attovation are attracting major investments in AI and quantum engineering.
2. The lab's latest attovation in electron manipulation could revolutionize quantum computing.
3. Their research funding is focused exclusively on attovations in energy transfer systems.

attovation by somefuturist February 8, 2025

Attovation

Innovation or progress achieved at a deep, foundational level — whether in ideas, technology, culture, or systems — that quietly shapes the future in ways most people don’t notice until the impact is enormous. Attovation happens beneath the surface, in the infrastructure, the methodology, or the thinking that eventually becomes inevitable.

Blending the SI prefix “atto-” (extremely small, 10⁻¹⁸) with “innovation.” The term describes innovation or progress that occurs at a foundational or ultra-deep level — whether in technology, ideas, culture, or systems — that quietly shapes the future in ways most people only notice later.

Forms:

Verb: attovate (to innovate at fundamental scales)
Adjective: attovative (characterized by fundamental-scale innovation)
Noun: attovator (one who practices attovation)

1. The company didn’t release a flashy product this year, but their research team’s attovation in supply chain optimization will pay off for decades.
2. The lab’s attovation in developing ultra-precise measurement tools will define the next generation of biotech.
3. Their attovative approach to problem-solving changed the entire industry from the ground up.
4. Gene editing with CRISPR is pure attovation: precision at the base-pair level versus crude genetic modification.

Attovation by somefuturist February 2, 2026

Activation Energy 

The energy that must be overcome for a chemical reaction to occur

Before a catalyst/enzyme/substrate can speed up a chemical reaction, it must use Activation Energy

Activation Energy by Aznargo September 24, 2009

Autobation 

Erotic stimulation especially of one's own genital organs commonly resulting in orgasm and achieved by manual or other bodily contact exclusive of sexual intercourse and specifically involving an automobile as a means of instrumental manipulation, sexual fantasy, or by various combinations of these agencies.

He was embarrassed when his grandmother walked into the garage and caught him in the act of autobation.

A few of the pages of his 'Car and Driver' magazine were stuck together, no doubt a result of an unhealthy car fetish and an incessant need for autobation.

Autobation by Dr. Fuchs August 21, 2010

activation fee 

A price generally attached to a prepaid credit card for the purpose of "activating" the credit card. There is no true reason for this fee, other than having innocent consumers pay extra.

Oh look! Those money hungry pigs working at Mastercard and Visa have attached an activation fee to their prepaid credit card products.

activation fee by JP Richards May 4, 2010

automation poisoning 

The phenomenon observed in late 2022, around the time when OpenAI's ChatGPT gained widespread adoption, of a younger generation of software developers holding the specific belief that, due to the disruptive technology behind artificial intelligence models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and chat agents such as ChatGPT, all tasks are able to be completed entirely or partially via these AI advancements.

Moreover, this sickness can be identified as more severe if the individual under suspicion of infection can be observed saying the blatant phrase: "I could automate that." Other signs of infection include a drastic decrease in productivity, which is in rare cases followed by a massive spike in the same productivity. This spike is less and less frequently being observed in the community.

Hiring Manager: Fuck man, I'm getting tired of all these bratty little applicants trying to tell me this position could be "like completely 'done' with ChatGPT, man..." They've got automation poisoning, the lot of 'em.

Hiring Manager 2: I hear you. I accidentally caught a glimpse of the display on one of their macbook pros as they left... the only apps on the taskbar were the unofficial ChatGPT client, A custom Midjourney client, and a custom Stable Diffusion client. Or maybe they were just shortcuts to open safari now that I think about it. She didn't even have the file explorer man...

automation poisoning by zudsniper July 26, 2023

Product Activation 

Product Activation is supposed to prevent piracy and freinds from copying or borrowing software, but it's an annoying and completly worthless feature of Windows XP, TurboTax, Norton Anti-Virus and many other programs and games that forces users to call the company and register to be able to run it after you install it.

If you change hardware (such as a video card or hard drive) on a Windows XP computer many times, XP will force you to call Microsoft to register the OS again. It also unfairly forces users to buy 2 or more copies for each computer you own. The best thing is complain to the company and tell them you will not buy thier products anymore. Dont support companies that force product activation.

I couldnt run TurboTax this weekend because I had to call an 1-800 number for Product Activation - and the office was closed until monday morning!

Product Activation by Whatever April 15, 2005