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PRONUNCIATION OF ACTIVE CENTRE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACTIVE CENTRE

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conjunction
determiner
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Active centre is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACTIVE CENTRE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of active centre in the English dictionary

The definition of active centre in the dictionary is the region in an enzyme molecule in which the reactive groups that participate in its action are juxtaposed Also called: active site.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACTIVE CENTRE

active
active carbon
active duty
active euthanasia
active galactic nucleus
active galaxy
active ingredient
active list
active matrix
active optics
active partner
active safety
active service
active site
active suspension
active transport
active vocabulary
active voice
active-matrix
actively

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACTIVE CENTRE

business centre
call centre
centre
city centre
community centre
concentre
conference centre
convention centre
drop-in centre
fitness centre
garden centre
health centre
information centre
rencontre
resource centre
right-of-centre
service centre
shopping centre
the Centre
town centre
training centre

Synonyms and antonyms of active centre in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «active centre» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACTIVE CENTRE

Find out the translation of active centre to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of active centre from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «active centre» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

活动中心
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

centro activo
570 millions of speakers

English

active centre
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सक्रिय केंद्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مركز نشط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

активный центр
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

centro ativo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সক্রিয় কেন্দ্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

centre actif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pusat aktif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

aktive Zentrum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

活性中心
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

활성 중심
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pusat aktif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trung tâm hoạt động
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செயலில் மையம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सक्रिय केंद्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Aktif merkez
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

centro attivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

centrum aktywne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

активний центр
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

centru activ
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενεργό κέντρο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aktiewe sentrum
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

aktivt centrum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

aktivt senter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of active centre

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACTIVE CENTRE»

The term «active centre» is normally little used and occupies the 132.727 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACTIVE CENTRE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «active centre» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «active centre» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about active centre

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACTIVE CENTRE»

Discover the use of active centre in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to active centre and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Analytical Methods Of Food Authentication
The active centre of the enzyme may be a crevice, cavity, pocket, hole, or depression on the surface of the enzyme-protein. Each particular enzyme has its own typical three-dimensionally structured active centre whose surface is constructed ...
Philip R. Ashurst, M.J. Dennis, 1998
2
Polymer Science Dictionary
The active centre concentration is usually much higher, which is an important factor in making these polymerizations extremely rapid. Unlike free radical polymerization, true termination by the reaction of two growing chain ends is impossible ...
Mark S. M. Alger, 1997
3
Mathematical Modeling: Problems, Methods, Applications
So the model of the active centre was constructed by only taking info account the nearest environment of the transition metal ions: the ns-, np-, (n-l)d valence atomic orbitals and the rules of group orbital construction based on the symmetry  ...
Ludmilla A. Uvarova, Anatolii V. Latyshev, 2001
4
Molecular Interactions and Activity in Proteins
Thus, after a chemical transformation of the active centre there appears a long- lived specific out-of-equilibrium state: the active centre is already changed, but the structure of the main volume of the protein macromolecule remains the same but ...
CIBA Foundation Symposium, 2009
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Molecular and Cellular Enzymology
However, the concept of the active centre remained for a long time rather poorly defined. For KOSHLAND, the active centre was constituted by all the enzyme atoms that are in contact fixed in the boundaries of the VAN DER WAALS radius with ...
Jeannine Yon-Kahn, Guy Hervé, 2010
6
Hazardous Metals in Human Toxicology
That region of the enzyme surface where the reactants are bound, interact and are chemically altered is known as the active centre. The changes may originate in a direct interaction at the active centre, but may equally well originate in ...
A. Vercruysse, 2000
7
Carrier-bound Immobilized Enzymes: Principles, Application ...
Lower activity retention might be because essential amino acid residues close to the active centre were linked to the carrier. This hypothesis is confirmed by the fact that the active centre of trypsin is negatively charged. Thus, the exposed ...
Linqiu Cao, 2006
8
Catalytic Hydrogenation
The nature of the support and the surface ligand may influence considerably the accessibility of the active centre toward olefin. For example, rhodium complexes on phosphinated polychloro— vinyl show low activity for olefin hydrogenation ...
L. Cervený, 1986
9
Introduction to Polymers, Third Edition
There are two types of ionic polymerization: those in which the active centre is positively charged are termed cationic polymerizations and those in which it is negatively charged are termed anionic polymerizations. Because the active centre ...
Robert J. Young, Peter A. Lovell, 2011
10
Basic Biology Course
Substrate specificity By determining the effect of various substrates on the enzyme's activity, information can be gained about the size and shape of the active centre, the stereo-specificity of the active centre and the nature of some of the groups ...
Derek Peacock, Michael A. Tribe, 1979

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACTIVE CENTRE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term active centre is used in the context of the following news items.
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Activity centre promoting active ageing opens in Jurong West
The first Adventist Active Centre caters for elderly residents, especially some 300 living in the studio apartments at Block 530 Jurong West ... «Channel News Asia, Jul 15»
2
Botanic Gardens 'just the first sight' of what S'pore can offer
Minister of State for National Development Desmond Lee, who was speaking to the media at the official opening of the Adventist Active Centre ... «TODAYonline, Jul 15»
3
Elderly stay on top of their game with Xbox Kinect in Singapore
One of these games, showcased at the official opening of Adventist Active Centre in Jurong West yesterday, lets players collect gold coins by ... «Malay Mail Online, Jul 15»
4
Retell the narrative of Islam to attack ISIL's core
And at the moment, ISIL is by far the most active centre of extremism – both through its mastery of media and through the territories it has ... «The National, Jun 15»
5
Iranian Nuclear Negotiators Run Rings Around Ours
At the same time, national pride runs deep among Iranians, as the country has been an active centre of cultural, scientific, religious and political ... «Sentinel Republic, Jun 15»
6
NFF – testy times ahead!
... personal fears about security in Kaduna, a city once an active centre for sporadic insurgent attacks and ethnic conflagration but now enjoying ... «Daily Trust, Jun 15»
7
PMB construction to upgrade infrastructure
“The next resurfacing project will be in Victoria Road intersection by the Virgin Active Centre and will take about a week or so to be completed,” ... «News24, Jun 15»
8
Sheffield leisure centre to cost £400000 over council budget
Sheffield Council agreed an 'emergency approval' to borrow money from a central Government pot for the North Active centre on Thorncliffe ... «The Star, May 15»
9
Nominations open for awards celebrating young achievers of African …
The charity is for youngsters, aged four to 15, and is currently based at the Everyone Active Centre in Acton. For additional information contact ... «getwestlondon, May 15»
10
Enniscorthy gearing up for summer of festivals
A Monster Bingo will take place this Sunday, May 10, in the Astro Active centre in Bellefield as a fundraiser for the town's upcoming festivals. «Irish Independent, May 15»

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