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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
actin /ˈaktɪn/

▶noun Biochemistry a protein which forms (together with myosin) the contractile filaments of muscle cells.

– origin 1940: from Gk aktis, aktin- ‘ray’ + -in1.

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