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n. An arrangement of gates. vb. (present participle of gate English)
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Gating may refer to:
Gating is a type of punishment similar to a detention used typically at educational institutions, especially boarding schools. Precisely what a gating consists of and the rules surrounding it will vary between institutions, but the common element is that someone who has been gated is not permitted to leave the establishment. The word is used as both a noun and a verb.
In telecommunication, the term gating has the following meanings:
- The process of selecting only those portions of a wave between specified time intervals or between specified amplitude limits.
- The controlling of signals by means of combinational logic elements.
- A process in which a predetermined set of conditions, when established, permits a second process to occur.
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In electrophysiology, the term gating refers to the opening ( activation) or closing (by deactivation or inactivation) of ion channels.
When ion channels are in a 'closed' (non-conducting) state, they are impermeable to ions and do not conduct electrical current. When ion channels are in an open state, they conduct electrical current by allowing some ions to pass through them, and thus across the plasma membrane of the cell. These flows of ions across the membrane result in an electrical current across the membrane. Gating is the process of an ion channel transforming between any of its conducting and non-conducting states.
The name 'gating' derives from the idea that an ion channel protein includes a pore that is guarded by a gate or several gates, and the gate(s) must be in the open position for any ions to pass through the pore. A variety of cellular changes can trigger gating, depending on the ion channel, including changes in voltage across the cell membrane ( voltage-gated ion channels), drugs or hormones interacting with the ion channel ( ligand-gated ion channels), changes in temperature, stretching or deformation of the cell membrane, addition of a phosphate group to the ion channel ( phosphorylation), and interaction with other molecules in the cell (e.g., G proteins). The rate at which any of these gating processes occurs in response to these triggers are known as the ' kinetics of gating.' Some drugs and many ion channel toxins act as 'gating modifiers' of voltage-gated ion channels by changing the kinetics of gating.
The voltage-gated ion channels of the action potential are often described as having four gating processes: activation, deactivation, inactivation, and reactivation (also called 'recovery from inactivation'). In a model of an ion channel that has two gates (an activation gate and an inactivation gate) that must both be open for ions to be conducted through the channel, 'activation' is the process of opening the activation gate, which occurs in response to the voltage inside the cell membrane (the membrane potential) becoming more positive with respect to the outside of the cell (depolarization); 'deactivation' is the opposite process of the activation gate closing in response to the inside of the membrane becoming more negative (repolarization). 'Inactivation' is the closing of the inactivation gate; as with activation, inactivation occurs in response to the voltage inside the membrane becoming more positive, but often inactivation is found to be delayed in time compared to activation. 'Recovery from inactivation' is the opposite of inactivation. Thus, both inactivation and deactivation are processes that lead to the channel becoming non-conducting, but they are different processes in that inactivation is triggered by the membrane potential becoming more positive, whereas deactivation is triggered by the membrane potential becoming more negative.
Usage examples of "gating".
Fetch Chatterford to its own worldlet, within easy gating distance of mine.
Louise should have taken the risk of gating here long enough to shut down the Earth gate and cripple this station keeper so that he could not easily reopen it.
This is partly for misdirection, given that gating actions, especially so massive as three people upon retrievers, are easily detected on the network.
I doubt Vidal will trouble to follow every Gating to the market to try to find you when he already has a more direct way.
He felt some concern about the effect of Gating when his power was at so low an ebb, but in fact Miralys must have managed the Gate because he was not even aware of the transition, only realizing he had arrived at Elfhame Avalon when the Gate appeared around him.
The glitter-winged wee folk had led them a complex path of Gating to find the domain, but the Gate at the end of the golden path had only one terminus: Avalon.
Because Aurelia would be Gating into this place in broad daylight, the place would need to be concealed.
Treowth said, Gating makes me anxious now, and with Harry in the north, I was Gating constantly.
Gwena and Cymry simply kept moving as they passed through, recovering from the disorientation of Gating much more quickly than Elspeth could.
Two torpedos, each one carrying enough high explosive to rip Pasadena apart, were range gating on his submarine and he was actually enjoying himself.
There were just a lot of outposts and other far-flung ventures to supply, and that was what had made it seem as if Gating was commonplace and simple.
That talent was still steadying down, as it might take some years yet to do: and it would take a lot of training yet before Arhu was anything like the gating technician that Saash had been.
With the proper deployment of Spring Constants and Magnetickal Gating, Power may be borrow'd, as needed, against repayment dates deferrable indefinitely.
The enemy's stench would be overwhelming if sensory gating didn't shut out everything but the vital input needed to survive.