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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of synapse.

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Examples

  • Thus if the spoils of desktop browser wars was the soul of the Internet, then the coming war will be for the soft, pliant heart of the social web; it all comes down to distribution and sticky eyeballs synapsed to clicky-clicky fingers over which advertisers and their kin salivate and jerk off.

    The battle for the future of the social web | FactoryCity 2008

  • She felt ashamed that her mind synapsed so quickly to this conclusion.

    GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007

  • The silent node suddenly synapsed into life, and the link surged—first as if to break off—then quickly expanding to block and control.

    Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

  • When homologous chromosomes become synapsed, the GFP-tags of the two

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David Obeso et al. 2010

  • CEN1's showed positive Zip1 staining: 50% linear staining, typical of synapsed chromosomes

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David Obeso et al. 2010

  • A single upstream pyramidal cell synapsed onto a small handful of Martinotti cells, which in turn made connections to a large number of downstream pyramidal cells, providing a multiplier effect commonly seen in control systems.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2010

  • When homologous chromosomes become synapsed, the GFP-tags of the two

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David Obeso et al. 2010

  • CEN1's showed positive Zip1 staining: 50% linear staining, typical of synapsed chromosomes

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles David Obeso et al. 2010

  • Pol β localizes to synapsed axes during zygonema and pachynema, and it associates with the ends of bivalents during late pachynema and diplonema.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Dawit Kidane 2009

  • Interestingly, the tips of filopodia, thin processes that presumably become stabilized and transform into spines, are found in close vicinity to preexisting axonal boutons that already synapsed on other granule cells more frequently than random chance would predict [

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2008

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