depolarize
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Part of what we’re trying to do is depolarize this issue.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2023
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
Some bitter molecules depolarize gustatory cells, whereas others hyperpolarize gustatory 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
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 become hyperpolarized.
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
But the years between Eighteen Hundred Fifty-six and Eighteen Hundred Sixty were years of agitation and earnest thought, and the idea that slavery was merely a local question was getting both depolarized and dehorned.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Elbert Hubbard
"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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