Engineering definition
1. The release of electrical energy by a discharge.
2. The flow leaving a river or stream, conduit, or container.
Medical definition
1. To release or liberate, as from a hospital.
2. An excretion or substance evacuated.
3. In electrotherapeutics, a spark released from a static machine or induction coil.
Confusion
There is overlap between the engineering and medical definitions pertaining to the electrical meanings as well as to the concept of flow.
