backpropagating
backpropagating is the present participle and gerund of backpropagate.
Meaning of backpropagate
Verb
backpropagate (third-person singular simple present backpropagates, present participle backpropagating, simple past and past participle backpropagated)
- 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 backpropagating
- What is backpropagating the present participle and gerund of?
- Backpropagating is the present participle and gerund of backpropagate.
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