summate
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of summate
First recorded in 1895–1900; back formation from summation
Example Sentences
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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 can be depolarizing or hyperpolarizing and can summate to affect the probability of the neuron reaching threshold.
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.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
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 Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
If, however, beginning at the second year, we summate the results for each year with those for all previous years, a steady rise from season to season is seen throughout.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock
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