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
Na+ enters the postsynaptic cell and causes the postsynaptic membrane to depolarize.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
This group of cells is self-excitable and able to depolarize to threshold and fire action potentials on their own, a feature called autorhythmicity; they do this at set intervals which determine heart rate.
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
You cannot depolarize, without destroying, Dante, or Milton, or any of our great poets; no more can you depolarize the great masterpiece of the Bible.
From Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures by Herman J. Heuser
Photoreceptors and bipolar cells are hyperpolarized, whereas other sensory receptors typically become depolarized.
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
When acetylcholine binds to the nicotinic receptor, the postsynaptic cell is depolarized.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The polarized beams came back depolarized, of course, but with phase-changes which said the reflector had a rounded, regular form.
From The Aliens by H. R. van Dongen
"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
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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