Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To partially or completely eliminate or counteract the polarization of.
- transitive verb To demagnetize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of polarity; remove the effects of polarity from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Opt.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
- transitive verb (Elec.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove the
polarization from something - verb To
demagnetize
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb eliminate the polarization of
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Examples
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MB: You frequently quote the organizer Saul Alinsky about the need for organizers to be "well-integrated schizoids" -- ready to polarize to mobilize and then depolarize to settle.
Matt Bieber: Marshall Ganz, Obama's 2008 Organizer-in-Chief, On the Moral Urgency of Occupy Wall Street Matt Bieber 2011
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In 2003 they published a paper with a bold claim: “ChR2 [a variant of channelrhodopsin] may be used to depolarize [that is, excite] animal cells… simply by illumination.”
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Effects of stimulation of the GABA receptor produces increased conductance of chloride ions intracellularly via the chloride channel thereby shunting electrical currents that would otherwise depolarize the membrane.
Flumanazil 2010
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MB: You frequently quote the organizer Saul Alinsky about the need for organizers to be "well-integrated schizoids" -- ready to polarize to mobilize and then depolarize to settle.
Matt Bieber: Marshall Ganz, Obama's 2008 Organizer-in-Chief, On the Moral Urgency of Occupy Wall Street Matt Bieber 2011
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In 2003 they published a paper with a bold claim: “ChR2 [a variant of channelrhodopsin] may be used to depolarize [that is, excite] animal cells… simply by illumination.”
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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MB: You frequently quote the organizer Saul Alinsky about the need for organizers to be "well-integrated schizoids" -- ready to polarize to mobilize and then depolarize to settle.
Matt Bieber: Marshall Ganz, Obama's 2008 Organizer-in-Chief, On the Moral Urgency of Occupy Wall Street Matt Bieber 2011
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AVLON: What the president needs to do tomorrow night is depolarize the debate.
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But it's up to the president to depolarize this debate by putting forward a bipartisan bill and showing the kind of leadership he campaigned on.
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He has deep advantage in just a couple of months to depolarize the most contentious, and one of the most contentious issues in this decade.
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This in turns regulates the ion channels in the cell membrane to allow sodium ions into the cell to depolarize it.
ACM TechNews 2009
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