Discharge
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Discharge in the context to expel or to "let go" may refer to:
- A military discharge, issued when a member of the armed forces is released from service.
- Termination of employment.
- A patient discharge, when a patient leaves a hospital after his or her medical treatment is completed.
- The act of firing a gun.
Discharge in the context of a flow may refer to:
- Electricity:
- Battery discharging.
- An electrostatic or corona discharge, types of electrical current flow.
- Partial discharge, a temporary breakdown of electrical insulation.
- The average discharge of a river, meaning the amount of water flowing through the river.
- Groundwater discharge
- Effluent released into a river or sea.
- Vaginal discharge, may be cervical mucus experienced by fertile women during their menstrual cycle, or may be a medical sign of many conditions including endometrial cancer, yeast infections, and some STDs.[1]
Other uses of discharge include:
- The British punk rock band Discharge.
- A bankruptcy discharge, the injunction that bars acts to enforce certain debts.
- The process in which the European Parliament accepts other European Union institutions' accounts.
- In co-counselling, the ways in which pent-up emotional hurt can be released, eg (as in Re-evaluation Counselling) via crying, laughter, etc.
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