electric discharge

Questions about electric discharge

What does electric discharge mean?

electric discharge means "electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field".

What is another word for electric discharge?

Close synonyms include discharge, spark, arc, electric arc. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electric discharge a common word?

electric discharge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.