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n. - A loss of diametrical opposition

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Usage examples (13)
  • To achieve "depolarisation," there is nothing more efficacious than the frankness and explicitness of scientific statement, however elementary.
  • Talks on such subjects should be very infrequent, but I believe that, if "depolarisation" is to be achieved, they must be repeated every now and then during later...
  • The mechanism of action of the drug is depolarisation of the cell membrane and destruction of the cell wall.
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, and submit such words to a process of depolarisation, which brings out their real meaning.
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