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
It has of course been a mighty agent in evolution, for those who can summate all their energies in attack have survived.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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 Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
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