Usually means: Movement against gradient using energy.
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  1. active transport: Merriam-Webster
  2. active transport: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. active transport: Collins English Dictionary
  4. active transport: Vocabulary.com
  5. active transport: Wiktionary
  6. active transport: Infoplease Dictionary
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  8. Active transport: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. active transport: Rhymezone
  10. active transport: FreeDictionary.org
  11. active transport: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. active transport: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. active transport: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  14. active transport: Merriam-Webster

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  1. active transport: Legal dictionary
  2. active transport: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. active transport: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. active transport: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Active transport: Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
  4. active transport: Medical dictionary

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  3. Active transport: Medicinal Chemistry
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (active transport)

▸ noun:  (biology) Movement of ions or molecules across a cell membrane into a region of higher concentration, assisted by enzymes and requiring energy.
▸ noun:  (transportation planning) Walking and cycling as means of travel.

Similar:
translocation, sodium pump, transportome, transport protein, cotransporter, translocase, contransporter, trafficking, symporter, electroendocytosis, more...

Opposite:
passive transport, diffusion, osmosis

Phrases:
active biological transport, more...

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Similar:
translocation, sodium pump, transportome, transport protein, cotransporter, translocase, contransporter, trafficking, symporter, electroendocytosis, more...

Opposite:
passive transport, diffusion, osmosis

Phrases:
active biological transport, more...



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