active centre
Britishnoun
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Olga Mayans and Jennifer Fleming created a three-dimensional model of its enzyme structure and active centre to understand the reaction pathway.
From Science Daily • Nov. 10, 2023
By 1700 Boston had already overtaken Oxford and Cambridge to become the second most active centre of publishing of English books after London.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2013
A great number of masons were trained in Italy, and came from Lombardy, which in the tenth century even was an active centre of civilisation.
From Illuminated Manuscripts by Bradley, John William
New Orleans is not so large; its active centre is very small.
From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by Cable, George Washington
There is an active centre of distribution in South-eastern Europe itself, from which species radiate out in all directions.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
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