precharge
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
before a charge
noun
The phase in the access cycle of DRAM during which the storage capacitors are charged to the appropriate value.
noun
The period of time before the person is charged with a crime.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The third way to reduce the charge-sharing effect associated with dynamic logic circuits is to precharge their internal nodes."