predischarge

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ discharge.

Adjective

predischarge (not comparable)

1. Before a discharge (especially, discharge from a hospital, military service, or other institution).

   Antonym: postdischarge

   • 2010, Pierre Theroux, Acute Coronary Syndromes, page 122:

     In general, patients who cannot perform a predischarge exercise test have a worse prognosis than those than can do the test.

Verb

predischarge (third-person singular simple present predischarges, present participle predischarging, simple past and past participle predischarged)

1. To discharge beforehand.
   • 1987, Researches of the Electrotechnical Laboratory, page 26:

     Filling gas is predischarged by a mini-size coaxial plasma gun, inserted in a side port.

   • 2010, Sunil P Khatri, Kanupriya Gulati, Hardware Acceleration of EDA Algorithms, page 50:

     Initially all signal triplets are predischarged and held at high impedance.

   • 2013, Kenneth J. Button, Infrared and Millimeter Waves V7, page 184:

     It would be interesting if an experiment were performed in which the D2 is first preheated or predischarged before injection into the laser cavity.

Noun

predischarge (plural predischarges)

1. The act of predischarging, or that which is predischarged.
   • 1928, The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine Journal of Science, page 856:

     The experiments undertaken in order to determine which of the predischarges, the positive or the negative, is the more important for long sparks.

   • 1973, Digest of Literature on Dielectrics, page 266:

     The transition in predischarges at certain gap distances resulted in two different breakdown voltages.