Theoretically, a recognized member of the modern state system possessing formal sovereignty and occupied by a people who see themselves as a single, united nation. Most nations and states aspire to parlance, nation-state is used as a synonym for country or state.
In biology, depolarization is a decrease in the absolute value of a cell's membrane potential. Thus, changes in membrane voltage in which the membrane potential becomes less positive or less negative are both depolarizations.
Definition of REPOLARIZATION. : restoration of the difference in charge between the inside and outside of the cell membrane following depolarization. â reÂ·poÂ·larÂ·ize \(Ë)rÄ-ËpÅ-lÉ-ËrÄ«z\ verb.ADVERTISEMENT.efinition of REPOLARIZATION. : restoration of the difference in charge between the inside and outside of the cell membrane following depolarization. â reÂ·poÂ·larÂ·ize \(Ë)rÄ-ËpÅ-lÉ-ËrÄ«z\ verb. ADVERTISEMENT.