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ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does electrical discharge mean?
• ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE (noun)
The noun ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE has 1 sense:
1. a discharge of electricity
Familiarity information: ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A discharge of electricity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("electrical discharge" is a kind of...):
discharge (the sudden giving off of energy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electrical discharge"):
impulse; nerve impulse; nervous impulse; neural impulse (the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber)
spike (a transient variation in voltage or current)
atmospheric electricity (electrical discharges in the atmosphere)
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