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precharge en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + charge.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) before 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:

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precharge en · NOUN

Etymology

From pre- + charge.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:semiconductors) The 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. The period of time before the person is charged with a crime.

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precharges Number=Plur lexicographic
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precharge en · VERB

Etymology

From pre- + charge.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:semiconductors) To 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:

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precharged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
precharged Tense=Past lexicographic
precharges Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pre-charge alternative lexicographic
precharging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic