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
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
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 Heuser, Herman J.
Photoreceptors and bipolar cells are depolarized, whereas other sensory receptors typically become hyperpolarized.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Very quickly, the membrane repolarizes, so that it can again be depolarized.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
As a result, the hair cell membrane is depolarized, and a signal is transmitted to the chochlear nerve.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Photoreceptors and bipolar cells are hyperpolarized, whereas other sensory receptors typically become depolarized.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Mrs. Frobisher touched the control button that depolarized the window in the breakfast room, letting the morning sun stream in through the now transparent sheet of glass.
From Anything You Can Do ... by Garrett, Randall
"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
This great constancy is chiefly due to the progressive reduction of the depolarizing electrode to the state of very conductive metal, which augments its conductivity and its depolarizing power.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various
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