depolarize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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Part of what we’re trying to do is depolarize this issue.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2023
This influx of positive ions causes the neuron to depolarize, generating an action potential.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
If norepinephrine is released onto those cells, it binds to an adrenergic receptor that causes the cells to depolarize faster, and the heart rate increases.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Researchers have now found that Escherichia coli drop this voltage difference for a brief moment and depolarize, much as neurons do when they fire.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 14, 2011
Between these two prisms, however, is a solution of chemicals which will depolarize the light and allow it to continue.
From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various
When the presynaptic membrane is depolarized, voltage-gated Ca2+ channels open and allow Ca2+ to enter the cell.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Photoreceptors and bipolar cells are depolarized, whereas other sensory receptors typically remain polarized.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
When a neuronal membrane is depolarized to at least the threshold of excitation, an action potential is fired.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
By 1993, she had been sufficiently depolarized to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
Mrs. Frobisher touched the control button that depolarized the window in the breakfast room, letting the morning sun stream in.
From Anything You Can Do! by Garrett, Randall
"Every time we use it, this process produces surprises. The first surprise is that people change their views. The second surprise is that they change their views in a way that's depolarizing."
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2025
And so I think a first step is probably changes, like what I hope we’ll see in Alaska and Massachusetts, moves toward ranked-choice voting or similar systems that are very depolarizing.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2020
Numerical studies16 estimate that, assuming a depolarizing error probability of p < 10−3 per elementary gate, a logical qubit needs to consist of between 1,000 and 10,000 physical qubits for PL < 10−15.
From Nature ● Sep. 12, 2017
Another powerful depolarizing move is praise, as we saw in the second Clinton-Trump debate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2016
The current produced is a function of the depolarizing action, i.e. of the free chlorine, and is indicated by the current meter which is graduated in parts per million of available chlorine.
From Chlorination of Water by Race, Joseph
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