predischarge

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Before a discharge (especially, discharge from a hospital, military service, or other…

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

   • In general, patients who cannot perform a predischarge exercise test have a worse prognosis than those than can do the test.
2. 2

   To discharge beforehand.

   • Filling gas is predischarged by a mini-size coaxial plasma gun, inserted in a side port.
   • Initially all signal triplets are predischarged and held at high impedance.
   • It would be interesting if an experiment were performed in which the D2 is first preheated or predischarged before injection into the laser cavity.
3. 3

   The act of predischarging, or that which is predischarged.

   • The experiments undertaken in order to determine which of the predischarges, the positive or the negative, is the more important for long sparks.
   • The transition in predischarges at certain gap distances resulted in two different breakdown voltages.

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