depolarize
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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
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
Photoreceptors and bipolar cells are depolarized, whereas other sensory receptors typically become hyperpolarized.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
When a neuronal membrane is depolarized to at least the threshold of excitation, an action potential is fired.
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
Our society-men sometimes become so depolarized in their tastes and feelings, as to be at ease nowhere but in Europe, and not much at ease there.
From Modern Society by Julia Ward Howe
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
We have succeeded in forming a new battery with a single liquid and with a solid depolarizing element by associating oxide of copper, caustic potash, and zinc.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various
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