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predischarge

predischarge adjective: before a discharge (especially, discharge from a hospital, military service, or other institution).

Adjective

predischarge (not comparable)

  1. 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.2010, Pierre Theroux, Acute Coronary Syndromes, page 122
    Antonyms:
    postdischarge

Verb

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

  1. To discharge beforehand.
    • Filling gas is predischarged by a mini-size coaxial plasma gun, inserted in a side port.1987, Researches of the Electrotechnical Laboratory, page 26
    • Initially all signal triplets are predischarged and held at high impedance.2010, Sunil P Khatri, Kanupriya Gulati, Hardware Acceleration of EDA Algorithms, page 50

Noun

predischarge (plural predischarges)

  1. 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.1928, The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine Journal of Science, page 856
    • The transition in predischarges at certain gap distances resulted in two different breakdown voltages.1973, Digest of Literature on Dielectrics, page 266

Antonyms of predischarge

Forms of predischarge

Verb
third-person singular presentpredischarges
present participlepredischarging
past participlepredischarged
pastpredischarged
Noun
pluralpredischarges

Origin of predischarge

From pre- + discharge.

Questions about predischarge

What does predischarge mean?
Predischarge means before a discharge (especially, discharge from a hospital, military service, or other institution).
What part of speech is predischarge?
Predischarge can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

Words near predischarge in the dictionary

  1. predisability
  2. predisabled
  3. predisagreement
  4. predisagreements
  5. predisaster
  6. predischarge
  7. predischarged
  8. predischarges
  9. predischarging
  10. prediscipline
  11. predisclose

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