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Undershoot

The situation where a neuron's membrane potential falls below the normal resting potential.

📖 Definitions of "Undershoot"

noun

1
The situation where a neuron's membrane potential falls below the normal resting potential.
2
An instance of undershooting.

verb

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
overshootnoun	To go past something; to go too far.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
underreachnoun	(intransitive) To reach insufficiently far; to underachieve.
undershiftnoun	An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
underhitverb	(sports, transitive) To hit with insufficient force.
underdoverb	(transitive) To do something insufficiently; especially, to undercook.
underspeakverb	To speak with understatement and/or modesty.
underrunnoun	(accounting) A condition in which fewer products are delivered or produced than had been ordered.
underburnverb	(transitive) To burn too little.
undersendverb	(ambitransitive) To send less than required, needed, or requested.
underfirenoun	(transitive, intransitive) To heat from below.
undersaveverb	(intransitive) To save too little money.
missnoun	A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
underperformverb	(ambitransitive) To underachieve; to fail to reach standards or expectations, especially with respect to a financial investment.
underselectverb	(transitive) To select (something) less than would be expected.
underdosenoun	An inadequate dose (of a medication).
overshortenverb	(transitive) To shorten too much; make excessively or inappropriately short.
unshot	Not having been shot.
understateverb	(transitive) To state (something) with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.
undersaturateverb	(transitive) To saturate too little.
fall shortverb	(idiomatic) To be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient.
underapplyverb	(transitive) To apply to an insufficient degree.