ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE

I. (noun)

Meaning:

A discharge of electricity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("electrical discharge" is a kind of...):

discharge (the sudden giving off of energy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electrical discharge"):

impulse; nerve impulse; nervous impulse; neural impulse (the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber)

spike (a transient variation in voltage or current)

atmospheric electricity (electrical discharges in the atmosphere)