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summate

[suhm-eyt] / ˈsʌm eɪt /










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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

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

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

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