debounced
debounced is the simple past and past participle of debounce.
Meaning of debounce
Verb
debounce (third-person singular simple present debounces, present participle debouncing, simple past and past participle debounced)
- To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
- To discard events or signals that should not be processed because they occurred too close together.
- With debouncing, we group several calls to the same events into one; with throttling, we are forcing our call to be executed no more than once per time period, such as a maximum of once per 400 ms.2016, Maximiliano Firtman, High Performance Mobile Web, page 224
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- Debounced is the simple past and past participle of debounce.
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