electric discharge

noun

1. physics another name for discharge

Example Sentences

One will understand this more easily when it is realized that at every electric discharge she runs away to escape the pain.

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We have here the mechanism of an electrical relay—the feeble energy of the electric discharge can call into play a giant energy.

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We hear the sound of the thunder only some seconds after the electric discharge of the cloud.

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Diamonds susceptible of phosphorescence exhibit it either after a heat not raised to redness, or the electric discharge.

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His great discovery, which died with him, was control over the direction and scope of the electric discharge.

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