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trickle charge

trickle charge verb: keeping a battery fully charged by charging it at a rate equal to its self-discharge rate.

Verb

trickle charge (third-person singular simple present trickle charges, present participle trickle charging, simple past and past participle trickle charged)

  1. Keeping a battery fully charged by charging it at a rate equal to its self-discharge rate.
  2. Charging a battery slowly, or by using a significantly smaller current than the battery is able to accept.
    • GWR plans to use it on the Greenford branch in west London, making use of a fast charger at West Ealing that will charge the batteries in just three and a half minutes. This fast charger is essentially a battery installed at the lineside which is trickle-charged from the electricity grid. It can...2024 March 6, “Network News: GWR '230' sets UK battery record”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 13

trickle charge meaning in Tamil

trickle charge in Tamil

சொட்டு ஏற்றம்

Antonyms of trickle charge

  • fast charge
  • fast-charge

Forms of trickle charge

third-person singular presenttrickle charges
present participletrickle charging
past participletrickle charged
pasttrickle charged

Words formed from trickle charge

Questions about trickle charge

What does trickle charge mean?
Trickle charge means keeping a battery fully charged by charging it at a rate equal to its self-discharge rate.
What is trickle charge in Tamil?
Trickle charge in Tamil is சொட்டு ஏற்றம். See Trickle charge meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is trickle charge?
Trickle charge is a verb.
What is the past tense of trickle charge?
The past tense of trickle charge is trickle charged.

Words near trickle charge in the dictionary

  1. trickings
  2. trickish
  3. trickishly
  4. trickishness
  5. trickle
  6. trickle charge
  7. trickle charged
  8. trickle charger
  9. trickle chargers
  10. trickle charges
  11. trickle charging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trickle charge (page history and authors); trickle charge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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