"depolarization" meaning in English

See depolarization in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /diˌpoʊlɚˌaɪˈzeɪʃən/ [Canada], /diːˌpəʊ.ləɹaɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ [UK] Forms: depolarizations [plural], depolarisation [alternative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English polarization English depolarization From de- + polarization. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|de-|polarization|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English polarization English depolarization [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "of", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*de", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-h₁", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*déh₁", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*dē", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "dē", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "dē-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "de-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "polarization", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "depolarization", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="depolarization"> From de- + polarization. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} depolarization (countable and uncountable, plural depolarizations)
  1. The act of reducing polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized or less polarized condition.
    (biology, medicine) An intracellular shift in electrical charge distribution, resulting in less negative charge inside the cell compared with outside; it is essential to the function of many cells, communication between cells, and the overall physiology of an organism.
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  2. The act of reducing polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized or less polarized condition.
    (sociology) Reduction of political polarization.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Coordinate_terms: deradicalization
    Sense id: en-depolarization-en-noun-Ws8rkEWI Categories (other): Sociology Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hypopolarization: (english: shift in intracellular electrical charge distribution) Derived forms: afterdepolarization, photodepolarization Related terms: after-depolarization, prepolarization, repolarization Translations (act of depolarizing): despolarització [feminine] (Catalan), dépolarisation [feminine] (French), despolarización [feminine] (Galician), berevajîbûna cemsergeriyê (Northern Kurdish), depolarisering (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'act of depolarizing': 50 50

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.