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
Very quickly, the membrane repolarizes, so that it can again be 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
The distance between nodes is the optimal distance to keep the membrane still depolarized above threshold at the next node.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The battery of her vital forces was depleted and depolarized.
From Phantom Wires A Novel by Brown, Arthur William
Na+ ions enter the cell, further depolarizing the presynaptic membrane.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
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 Miller, Kempster
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