"synapse" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsɪnæps/, /ˈsaɪnæps/, /sɪˈnæps/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-synapse.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-synapse2.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-synapse3.wav Forms: synapses [plural]
Rhymes: -æps Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σύναψις (súnapsis, “conjunction”), from συνάπτω (sunáptō, “to clasp”). Introduced by neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sem-}}, {{lbor|en|grc|σύναψις||conjunction}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σύναψις (súnapsis, “conjunction”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} synapse (plural synapses)
  1. The junction between the terminal of a neuron and either another neuron or a muscle or gland cell, over which nerve impulses pass. Categories (topical): Body parts Related terms: synaptic, axon, dendrite, ephapse Translations (junction between neurons): مشبك [masculine] (Arabic), синапс (sinaps) [masculine] (Bulgarian), sinapsi [feminine] (Catalan), 突觸 (Chinese Mandarin), 突触 (tūchù) (Chinese Mandarin), synapse [feminine] (Czech), synapse [common-gender] (Danish), synaps [masculine] (Dutch), synapsi (Finnish), hermoliitos (Finnish), synapse [feminine] (French), Synapse [feminine] (German), σύναψη (sýnapsi) [feminine] (Greek), סינפסה (sinapsa) [feminine] (Hebrew), מִסְנָף (misnaf) [masculine] (Hebrew), מצמד (mitsmād) [masculine] (Hebrew), sinapsis (Indonesian), sinapsi [feminine] (Italian), シナプス (shinapusu) (Japanese), sinaps (Malay), gehînkeya demarî [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), سیناپس (sinâps) (Persian), همایه (hamâye) (Persian), synapsa [feminine] (Polish), sinapse [feminine] (Portuguese), си́напс (sínaps) [masculine] (Russian), sinapsa [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), synapsia (Slovak), sinapsis [feminine] (Spanish), synaps [common-gender] (Swedish), sinaps (Turkish), си́напс (sýnaps) [masculine] (Ukrainian), xináp (Vietnamese)
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Verb

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Rhymes: -æps Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σύναψις (súnapsis, “conjunction”), from συνάπτω (sunáptō, “to clasp”). Introduced by neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sem-}}, {{lbor|en|grc|σύναψις||conjunction}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σύναψις (súnapsis, “conjunction”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} synapse (third-person singular simple present synapses, present participle synapsing, simple past and past participle synapsed)
  1. (intransitive) To form a synapse. Tags: intransitive Translations (forming a synapse): átkapcsolódik (Hungarian), átkapcsol (Hungarian)
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  2. (intransitive) To undergo synapsis. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-synapse-en-verb-cObRKN1q

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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.