depolarize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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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
This will depolarize the hair cell membrane, triggering nerve impulses that travel down the afferent nerve fibers attached to the hair cells.
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
The second thing would be to depolarize every fixed religious idea in the mind by changing the word which stands for it.——I don't know what you mean by "depolarizing" an idea,—said the divinity-student.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 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
As a result, the hair cell membrane is depolarized, and a signal is transmitted to the chochlear nerve.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Very quickly, the membrane repolarizes, so that it can again be depolarized.
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 through the now transparent sheet of glass.
From Anything You Can Do ... by Randall Garrett
Each strategy can take two forms: polarizing and depolarizing.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
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
We have succeeded in forming a new battery with a single liquid and with a solid depolarizing element by associating oxide of copper, caustic potash, and zinc.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various
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