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
Thenceforth it has been an active centre for the teaching and for the encouragement of the study of diplomatic throughout the country, and has produced results which other nations may envy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
An active centre of origin appears to exist in South-eastern Europe, from which the species radiate out in all directions.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
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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