Onbeam

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    In line with excited parallel neurofibers. not-comparable

    "Because of a:— counterbalancing relationship between onbeam excitation and inhibition at the Purkinje cell (Eccles et al., 1967) some manner of continually refurbished excitation from these extramuscular receptors must be postulated (Murphy, MacKay & Johnson, 1973)"

  2. 2
    On a transmitted carrier wave. not-comparable

    "The FSTAT detector performance is suboptimal in the presence of onbeam coherent noise or incoherent signals ..."

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"Because of a:— counterbalancing relationship between onbeam excitation and inhibition at the Purkinje cell (Eccles et al., 1967) some manner of continually refurbished excitation from these extramuscular receptors must be postulated (Murphy, MacKay & Johnson, 1973)"

Etymology

From on- + beam.

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