overdischargen.
/ˌəʊvəˈdɪstʃɑːdʒ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈdɪsˌtʃɑrdʒ/ Excessive discharge, esp. of electricity; spec. the discharge of an accumulator or storage battery beyond a certain limit, esp. so as to cause damage to it.
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overdischarge1853
1853 Sci. Amer. 15 Jan. 142/2 I am aware that there have been other plans of self-acting stoppers, recently introduced, all of which have the same objection of producing an uncertain scattering or over discharge.
1867 J. King Causes Chronic Dis. 1376 Epiphora, or an excessive secretion of tears.., requires a treatment directed to the disease of which the overdischarge of tears is merely a symptom.
1904 N.E.D. (at cited word) The sulphating of the plates was due to over-discharge. Frequent over-discharges had caused the plates to buckle.
1976 Science 11 June 1127/3 This electrolyte is susceptible to decomposition on overdischarge and so is not suitable for commercial use.
1996 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 354 1574 Such cells have virtually no self-discharge processes and operate with essentially 100% coulombic efficiency. However, great care is necessary to prevent overcharge or overdischarge.
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overdischargev.
/ˌəʊvədɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvərdɪsˈtʃɑrdʒ/ΚΠ
1890 Science 25 July 46/1 The hastily discharged cloud..over-discharges itself, and becomes negative. This [sc. a charged cloud]..again discharges and over-discharges till it is positive.
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a. transitive. To discharge (an accumulator or storage battery) beyond a certain limit.
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overdischarge1893
1893 D. Salomons Managem. Accumulators 133 The causes may..be traced..more generally to the cells having been habitually over-discharged, or left standing for a long period with little charge in them.
1976 Science 7 May 543/1 A major problem in batteries is cell reversal, which occurs when one cell dies but continues to be driven (overdischarged) by the other cells.
1982 Giant Bk. Electronics Projects viii. 360 Don't over-discharge the batteries.
b. intransitive. Of an accumulator or storage battery: to discharge beyond a certain limit.
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1938 A. E. Clayton Performance & Design Direct Current Machines (ed. 2) xiii. 278 The arrangement shown in Fig. 215 is..unstable, as during heavy battery discharge the shunt winding will be unduly starved of current and so the battery will tend to over-discharge.
1993 Nature 22 Apr. 692/2 When users are well-trained on how to keep their batteries alive by not allowing them to over-discharge, they become experts at managing their power consumption.
1998 Design News (Nexis) 7 Dec. 97 The DS2437 [chip] supplies all the real-time battery data necessary to ensure the battery does not overcharge or overdischarge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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