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
The channels that start depolarizing the membrane because of a stimulus help the cell to depolarize from -70 mV to -55 mV.
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
Photoreceptors and bipolar cells are depolarized, whereas other sensory receptors typically become hyperpolarized.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Photoreceptors and bipolar cells are depolarized, whereas other sensory receptors typically remain polarized.
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
If one cell is depolarized in an electrical synapse, the joined cell also depolarizes because the ions pass between the cells.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Our society-men sometimes become so depolarized in their tastes and feelings, as to be at ease nowhere but in Europe, and not much at ease there.
From Modern Society by Howe, Julia Ward
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
Brewster found the specimens which he examined to be perfectly isotropic, exercising no influence in depolarizing light.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various
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