summate
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of summate
First recorded in 1895–1900; back formation from summation
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These changes can lead to the neuron reaching threshold if the changes add together, or summate.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Graded potentials summate at a specific location at the beginning of the axon to initiate the action potential, namely the initial segment.
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Graded potentials can be depolarizing or hyperpolarizing and can summate to affect the probability of the neuron reaching threshold.
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In the course of time all of these retained bitter impressions summate, and the qualities arising from them become more acute, become habitual, and at last you have a ready-made person ``marked for evil.''
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
They accumulate in time, finally they summate, and exercise their influence even at the beginning of the service.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
To cause a lasting change in the target cell, multiple signals are usually added together, or summated.
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And as yet he dared not dart the light-beam into that pit of darkness, for fear of precipitating an unthinkable tragedy--if, indeed, the horror had not already been cons summated.
From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
Mr. Brown prepared four curves: the first, covering the earliest period, 1757-1859; the second, the period 1860-1876; the third, 1877-1893; while the fourth presented the summated results for the whole period.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Havelock Ellis
I reproduce the total results summated for the months, separately, and I have worked out the daily average for each month, for convenience counting the summated eight years as one year:— Jan.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Havelock Ellis
It is indicated by the following monthly frequencies, summated for the four years:— Jan.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Havelock Ellis
Others had thought the task easier of accomplishment by measuring each division or aspect of intelligence separately, and summating the results.
From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
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