Discharge

The term discharge can have several meanings in different contexts:

To discharge a weapon is to fire it.
A military discharge is issued when a member of the armed forces is released from service.
In healthcare, discharge represents the end point of an inpatient hospital contact which consists of one or several days of care, such as a hospital separation.
In medicine, discharge is puss or exudite (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or other pathology.
In electricity, a flow of current, as in an electrostatic discharge or a corona discharge.
In electricity, a state of depletion of an electric battery or capacitor, said to be discharged.
In hydrology, the average discharge of a river means the amount of water flowing through the river.
In music, Discharge was a British punk rock band.

This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.

Retrieved from "http://www.centipedia.com/articles/Discharge"

This page has been accessed 566 times. This page was last modified 08:09, 3 Oct 2004. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).