Meanings
verbdebounce (third-person singular simple present debounces, present participle debouncing, simple past and past participle debounced)
present singular third person debounces · participle present debouncing · participle past debounced · past debounced
- businessTo remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
- broadlycomputingTo discard events or signals that should not be processed because they occurred too close together.
With debouncing, we group several calls to the same events into one; with throttling, we are forcing our call to be executed no more than once per time period, such as a maximum of once per 400 ms.
2016, Maximiliano Firtman, High Performance Mobile Web, page 224
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*de
- Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
- Proto-Italic*dē
- Latindē
- Latindē-
- Englishde-
- Englishbounce
- Englishdebounce
Translations
German entprellen
- entprellenelectronics: to remove the small ripple of current
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with debounce
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APA
debounce. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/debounce
MLA
“debounce.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/debounce. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “debounce,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/debounce.
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