Refractory period

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Refractoriness is the fundamental property of any object of autowave nature (especially excitable medium) not responding to stimuli, if the object stays in the specific refractory state.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Refractory period (physiology)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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