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
It is now a very active centre of iron and steel manufactures.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Of this widespread commotion London was the active centre; and there a judgment of God, called the plague, had, in the year 1625, desolated whole streets.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
His disregard of popular desire suggests the fatal ease with which we neglect the opinion of those who stand outside the active centre of political conflict.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph
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