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debounce en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /diːˈbaʊns/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English bounce English debounce From de- + bounce.

Meanings

  1. To 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.
  2. (broadly) To 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
debounces Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
debounced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
debounced Tense=Past lexicographic
debouncing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

debouncer

Relateds

keybounce

Translations (1)

de entprellen (electronics: to remove the small ripple of current)