The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discharger \Dis*char"ger\, n. One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
Wiktionary
n. Someone or something that discharges something, such as pollution or a firearm
Wikipedia
A discharger in electronics is a device or circuit that releases stored energy or electric charge from a battery, capacitor or other source.
Discharger types include:
- metal probe with insulated handle & ground wire, and sometimes resistor (for capacitors)
- resistor (for batteries)
- parasitic discharge (for batteries arranged in parallel)
- more complex electronic circuits (for batteries)
See also Bleeder resistor
Category:Electronic circuits
Usage examples of "discharger".
Nevertheless, the Elaysian managed to keep his wits about him, and was fumbling in his yellow robes for a phaser when the Catullan let loose with the graviton discharger from the other end of the corridor.
He tapped the weapons array, bringing a plasma discharger on line as it snapped into view on the underside of the vessel.
I had learned that the whorehouses on the islands were a chain of contacts for dischargers, a place of resort, of help.
The Shorlands armored cars were painted in Syrian camouflage with all details correct, even the extra smoke dischargers Murdock had requested.
His concentrated dischargers had shrugged off the Humans' heaviest bombardment.
Bright flashes of light lit up the thick foliage outside the wide-open doors of the transport as point defense dischargers opened fire into the sky.
It is slow progress, but our dischargers are constantly being overwhelmed by the shells.
His concentrated dischargers, combined with the point defense emplacements from their transport, had shrugged off the Humans' heaviest bombardment.
As the wheel spun, the dischargers literally dissolved the dirt in a widening circle while at the same time hardening the resulting tunnel by reinforcing its molecular structure to nearly diamond-hard durability.
Inside were three GPMGs (general purpose machine guns), an M79 grenade launcher, smoke dischargers, radios, and, most important, flasks of tea and sandwiches, because we were up there forever.