Backpropagate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Backpropagate is a verb meaning (neurology, of an action potential) To propagate back through to the dendrites from which the original input was received.
Meaning
(neurology, of an action potential) To propagate back through to the dendrites from which the original input was received.
Example Sentences
These results demonstrate that the predicted reduction in synaptic driving force caused by appropriately timed backpropagating APs only slightly increases shunting of proximal synaptic inputs at their site of generation and at the soma.
Word Forms
- backpropagates
- backpropagating
- backpropagated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include project, neurotransmit, reinnervate, neurotize, neurostimulate, renervate.
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