precharge

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adjective

before a charge

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveprecharge (not comparable)

alternative pre-charge

  1. not comparablebefore 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.

    2007 November 18, Raymond Bonner, “The Tories Find Their Inner Liberal”, in New York Times
nounprecharge (plural precharges)

plural precharges · alternative pre-charge

  1. semiconductorsThe 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.

    2013, Paul Chow, The MIPS-X RISC Microprocessor
  2. lawThe period of time before the person is charged with a crime.
verbprecharge (third-person singular simple present precharges, present participle precharging, simple past and past participle precharged)

present singular third person precharges · participle present precharging · participle past precharged · past precharged · alternative pre-charge

  1. semiconductorsTo 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.

    2011, Ming-Bo Lin, Introduction to VLSI Systems: A Logic, Circuit, and System

Origin

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