(from the article `animal communication`) A number of fishes that live in muddy waters produce regular patterns of electrical discharges as an active sensory system (active in the same sense ... In emission spectroscopy, an electric discharge is established between a pair of electrodes, one of which is made of the material being analyze...
a discontinuous movement of electrical charges through an insulating medium, initiated by electron avalanches and supplemented by secondary processes
[n] - a discharge of electricity
noun a discharge of electricity