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precharge

precharge adjective: before a charge.

Adjective

precharge (not comparable)

  1. before a charge
    • The view is we've fought two wars for liberty, and we'll be damned if we're going to give it up now, she said, adding that she personally favors extending precharge detention to 90 days.2007 November 18, Raymond Bonner, “The Tories Find Their Inner Liberal”, in New York Times

Noun

precharge (plural precharges)

  1. (semiconductors) The phase in the access cycle of DRAM during which the storage capacitors are charged to the appropriate value.
    • The purpose of the metal is to speed up the precharge, and the reason for only 4 taps is to spread the precharge out over 15 ns to avoid a huge current spike during precharge.2013, Paul Chow, The MIPS-X RISC Microprocessor
  2. The period of time before the person is charged with a crime.

Verb

precharge (third-person singular simple present precharges, present participle precharging, simple past and past participle precharged)

  1. (semiconductors) To charge the storage capacitors as a part of the DRAM precharge phase.
    • The third way to reduce the charge-sharing effect associated with dynamic logic circuits is to precharge their internal nodes.2011, Ming-Bo Lin, Introduction to VLSI Systems: A Logic, Circuit, and System

Forms of precharge

Adjective
alternative formpre-charge
Noun
pluralprecharges
Verb
third-person singular presentprecharges
present participleprecharging
past participleprecharged
pastprecharged

Origin of precharge

From pre- + charge.

Questions about precharge

What does precharge mean?
Precharge means before a charge.
What part of speech is precharge?
Precharge can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near precharge in the dictionary

  1. prechaetal
  2. prechallenge
  3. prechamber
  4. prechambers
  5. prechampionship
  6. precharge
  7. precharged
  8. precharges
  9. precharging
  10. prechart
  11. precharts

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