to dismiss from or relieve of duty, office, employment, etc
3.
to fire or be fired, as a gun
4.
to pour forth or cause to pour forth
the boil discharges pus
5. (transitive)
to remove (the cargo) from (a boat, etc); unload
6. (transitive)
to perform (the duties of) or meet (the demands of an office, obligation, etc)
he discharged his responsibilities as mayor
7. (transitive)
to relieve oneself of (a responsibility, debt, etc)
8. (intransitive) physics
a.
to lose or remove electric charge
b.
to form an arc, spark, or corona in a gas
c.
to take or supply electrical current from a cell or battery
9. (transitive) law
to release (a prisoner from custody, etc)
10. (transitive)
to remove dye from (a fabric), as by bleaching
11. (intransitive)
(of a dye or colour) to blur or run
12. (transitive) architecture
a.
to spread (weight) evenly over a supporting member
b.
to relieve a member of (excess weight) by distribution of pressure
noun (ˈdɪstʃɑːdʒ, dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ)
13.
a person or thing that is discharged
14.
a.
dismissal or release from an office, job, institution, etc
b.
the document certifying such release
15.
the fulfilment of an obligation or release from a responsibility or liability
honourable discharge
16.
the act of removing a load, as of cargo
17.
a pouring forth of a fluid; emission
18.
a.
the act of firing a projectile
b.
the volley, bullet, missile, etc, fired
19. law
a.
a release, as of a person held under legal restraint
b.
an annulment, as of a court order
20. physics
a.
the act or process of removing or losing charge or of equalizing a potential difference
b.
a transient or continuous conduction of electricity through a gas by the formation and movement of electrons and ions in an applied electric field
21.
a.
the volume of fluid flowing along a pipe or a channel in unit time
b.
the output rate of a plant or piece of machinery, such as a pump
Derived forms
dischargeable (disˈchargeable)
adjective
discharger (disˈcharger)
noun
Examples of 'electric discharge' in a sentence
electric discharge
The capacitor electric discharge circuit was used as an underwater shock wave generating device.
Y Nishimura, N Kawaji, S Itoh 2016, 'Numerical Analysis of the Behavior of Shock Wave in Spheroid Vessel', International Journal of Multiphysicshttp://journal.multiphysics.org/index.php/IJM/article/view/156. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This article presents an overview of ultrasonic vibration applications in electric discharge machining.
Nurbol Sabyrov, M. P. Jahan, Azat Bilal, Asma Perveen 2019, 'Ultrasonic Vibration Assisted Electro-Discharge Machining (EDM)—An Overview', Materialshttps://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/12/3/522. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Recently researchers have been attracted by powder mixed electric discharge machining with the advancement in technology.
Vijaykumar S. Jatti, Shivraj Bagane 2018, 'Thermo-electric modelling, simulation and experimental validation of powder mixedelectric discharge machining (PMEDM) of BeCu alloys', Alexandria Engineering Journalhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016817300868. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The electric discharge was generated using a pulsed voltage power source, with a period of 200 mus.
S.F. Brunatto, I. Kühn, J.L.R. Muzart 2001, 'Influence of the radial spacing between cathodes on the surface composition of ironsamples sintered by hollow cathode electric discharge', Materials Researchhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-14392001000400005. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Using this device, we could repeatedly induce sudden decreases in the beam lifetime because of the generated electric discharge.
Yasunori Tanimoto, Tohru Honda, Shogo Sakanaka 2009, 'Experimental demonstration and visual observation of dust trapping in an electronstorage ring', Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beamshttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.12.110702. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)