precharge

adj

1. (not-comparable)before a charge

   “The view is we've fought two wars for liberty, and we'll be damned if we're going to give it up now, she said, adding that she personally favors extending precharge detention to 90 days.”

noun

1. The phase in the access cycle of DRAM during which the storage capacitors are charged to the appropriate value.

   “The purpose of the metal is to speed up the precharge, and the reason for only 4 taps is to spread the precharge out over 15 ns to avoid a huge current spike during precharge.”

2. The period of time before the person is charged with a crime.

verb

1. To charge the storage capacitors as a part of the DRAM precharge phase.

   “The third way to reduce the charge-sharing effect associated with dynamic logic circuits is to precharge their internal nodes.”