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Electrical discharge   /ɪlˈɛktrɪkəl dɪstʃˈɑrdʒ/   Listen
Electrical discharge

noun
1.
A discharge of electricity.





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"Electrical discharge" Quotes from Famous Books



... a noted scientist, Dr. Siemens, while standing on the top of the great pyramid of Cheops, in Egypt, during a storm, noted that an electrical discharge flowed from his hand when extended toward the heavens. The current manifested itself in such a manner that the hissing noise ...
— Electricity for Boys • J. S. Zerbe
... since the significance of any event followed its occurrence as variably as the acoustic report followed the electrical discharge and of counterestimating against an actual loss by failure to interpret the total sum of possible losses proceeding originally from ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce


Words linked to "Electrical discharge" :   atmospheric electricity, spike, neural impulse, discharge, nervous impulse, nerve impulse, impulse


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