predischarge

adj

1. (not-comparable)Before a discharge (especially, discharge from a hospital, military service, or other institution).

   “In general, patients who cannot perform a predischarge exercise test have a worse prognosis than those than can do the test.”

verb

1. To discharge beforehand.

   “Filling gas is predischarged by a mini-size coaxial plasma gun, inserted in a side port.”

   “Initially all signal triplets are predischarged and held at high impedance.”

   “It would be interesting if an experiment were performed in which the D2 is first preheated or predischarged before injection into the laser cavity.”

noun

1. The act of predischarging, or that which is predischarged.

   “The experiments undertaken in order to determine which of the predischarges, the positive or the negative, is the more important for long sparks.”

   “The transition in predischarges at certain gap distances resulted in two different breakdown voltages.”