The phrase "active or dormant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the state of something, indicating whether it is currently functioning or inactive.
Example: "The volcano is classified as either active or dormant based on its recent activity."
Alternatives: "operational or inactive" or "functioning or idle".
Most people have some sort of addiction – active or dormant.
Then, in 2002, earthquake faults were discovered under two of the partly completed buildings, though it was not known whether the faults were active or dormant.
Author(s): Priscilla Chan, The New York Times Learning Network Javaid Khan, The Bank Street College of Education in New York City Suggested Time Allowance: 1 hour Objectives: Students will: 1. Assess their opinions about living near active or dormant volcanoes.
These channels may be active or dormant but they have role to perform and they are opportunity driven and both the partners understand this and sustain the partnership.
Based on the context of the VRU, the safety app on the phone should be active or dormant, in order to save power [7].
Toss in the two dozen other nations with active or dormant nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, and you have a scary game of "Where Are They Now?" It only takes a handful of white coats to set up a bomb factory or disease lab.
Thus, we generated a cDNA library using RNA extracted from actively growing buds and four cDNA collections using RNA extracted from buds containing active or inactive (dormant) buds (Table 1).
An intriguing feature of mitochondrial complex I from several vertebrate species and yeast is the existence of two functionally and structurally different states of the enzyme: active, A-form and de-active or dormant, D-form [7].
His status, he says, is "dormantly active – or actively dormant".
An activity a is denominated idle at time t, if it is neither active nor dormant at time t.
There has also been progress in development of new antituberculosis drugs that are active against dormant or persister populations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
