potentials

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All the computation is performed by the complex nonlinear integration of action potentials across the dendritic tree.

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Quick take

A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).

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The clearest senses and uses of potentials gathered in one view.

noun

A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).

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(grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.

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(physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for potentials.

noun

A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).

noun

(grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.

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(physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.

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(physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.

Example sentences

All the computation is performed by the complex nonlinear integration of action potentials across the dendritic tree.

The probability increases since you are not introducing any personal biases and exposed to more upside potentials.

Large optimization potentials of many public / well used / open source systems have been noted for many years.

The technical advances and rationalizing potentials are gigantic and have the potential to reduce working hours drastically.

That said, I can also see the potentials and it seems to be heading in the right direction.

I find it strange how you can know ahead of time the intentions and potentials of home invaders.

I really like the way the site operates even if there are potentials for abuse or inaccuracies.

I pitched an immature product to investors, and when sales flopped, we flopped, despite numerous pivot potentials.

The potentials for data corruption and tainted state is higher in the latter, though it's still relatively good for a surprising number of problems.

The highest potentials hit the superstars VCs first, and get picked up.

I personally lean towards logic interpolation (Handlebars, AngularJS), but both have their potentials for abuse.

I've seen people using machine learning on twitter to do some stuff and there are potentials with any large amount data.

Quote examples

One of my pet peeves about web sites in general, related to your state: every damn commercial site everywhere should have a darn "about" link so interested potentials can begin to puzzle out who they potentially dealing with.

Though, not all neuroscientists are on the same page nor agree with the claims some people want to make… "The frequency of action potentials (APs) generated by neurons is correlated with different events; however, it does not mean that such events are ‘encoded’ in the brain using the firing rate or any other ‘temporal code ’ (e.g.

There is no damage threat to ground-based electronics not attached to really long wires (many miles, longer than CO to phone loops.) The threat to power transmission is simply that different parts of the earth temporarily have different electrical potentials at "ground".