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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
verb
To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
To discard events or signals that should not be processed because they occurred too close together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English bounce English debounce From de- + bounce.
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
