WordNet
n. electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field [syn: discharge, spark, arc, electric arc]
Wikipedia
Electric discharge describes any flow of electric charge through a gas, liquid or solid. Electric discharges include:
- Brush discharge
- Dielectric barrier discharge
- Corona discharge
- Electric glow discharge
- Electric arc
- Electrostatic discharge
- Electric discharge in gases
- Leader (spark)
- Partial discharge
- Streamer discharge
- Vacuum arc
- Townsend discharge
Usage examples of "electric discharge".
Many of the spectators avow that it was by the agency of an electric discharge.
Sara had suggested that we try the simple electric discharge method on a small sample of 'Becca's blood.
An ideal blackbody was theoretically impossible without a source of stabilized electric discharge.
The pungent odour of ozone from the electric discharge filled the room.
Containing nothing organic, it promptly delivered itself of a violent electric discharge.
A curious snapping and crackling noise followed, becoming more rapid, and as it mounted in intensity I could smell a pungent odour of ozone which told of an electric discharge.
Instantly an electric discharge as cruel as fangs and as lurid as the Despiser's lightning lit the night.
A curious snapping and crackling noise followed, becoming more rapid, and as it mounted in intensity I could smell a pungent odor of ozone which told of an electric discharge.
The cylinder transmitted a gentle throb to her flat palm, a thrum-thrum-thrum so faint that it felt like the tingle of a weak electric discharge.
Lightning flared, i blile-white bell of electric discharge from wall to wall.
They didn't know, not really, and when the IMC clicked on there was an increase in the tension, a silent electric discharge creating a human aroma of ozone.
The impact blew it apart, sending electric discharge in every direction.
Evolutionists had arrogantly folded their arms across their chests back in 1953 when Harold Urey and Stanley Miller created amino acids by putting an electric discharge through a primordial soup—.
An Insulated Piece Of Equipment, When Active, Would Generate An Electric Discharge-Static Electricity.