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backpropagated

backpropagated is the simple past and past participle of backpropagate.

Meaning of backpropagate

Verb

backpropagate (third-person singular simple present backpropagates, present participle backpropagating, simple past and past participle backpropagated)

  1. To propagate back through to the dendrites from which the original input was received.
    • 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.2001 January 5, “Differential Shunting of EPSPs by Action Potentials”, in Science, volume 291, number 5501, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 138–141

Questions about backpropagated

What is backpropagated the simple past and past participle of?
Backpropagated is the simple past and past participle of backpropagate.

Words near backpropagated in the dictionary

  1. backprojection
  2. backprojections
  3. backprojects
  4. backprop
  5. backpropagate
  6. backpropagated
  7. backpropagates
  8. backpropagating
  9. backpropagation
  10. backpropagational
  11. backpropagations

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