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.
repolarization. 1. the reestablishment of polarity, especially the return of a cell's membrane potential to resting potential after depolarization. 2. in cardiac physiology, the restoration of the cell to its maximal diastolic potential, represented by phase 0 to phase 3 of the action potential.(rÄ'pÅ-lÄr-i-zÄ'shÅ­n),. the reestablishment of polarity, especially the return of a cell's membrane potential to resting potential after depolarization. 2. in cardiac physiology, the restoration of the cell to its maximal diastolic potential, represented by phase 0 to phase 3 of the action potential.