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
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
The opposing signals to the heart would both depolarize and hyperpolarize the heart cells that establish the rhythm of the heartbeat, likely causing arrhythmia.
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 depolarized, whereas other sensory receptors typically become hyperpolarized.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
Very quickly, the membrane repolarizes, so that it can again be depolarized.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
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
This cell employs a chemical method of taking care of polarization, the depolarizing agent being peroxide of manganese, which is closely associated with the carbon element.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Kempster Miller
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