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
During the Civil War, until its temporary occupation by Federal forces in 1863, and subsequent effective blockade, it was an active centre of operations of Confederate blockade runners.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
Wallingford, six miles above Streatley, is a very ancient town, and has been an active centre for the making of English history.
From Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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 John William Bradley
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