Meaning

2 senses

  1. Keeping a battery fully charged by charging it at a rate equal to its self-discharge rate.

  2. Charging a battery slowly, or by using a significantly smaller current than the battery is able to accept.

Forms

trickle charges, trickle charging, trickle charged, trickle charged
Base formtrickle charge · to trickle charge
3rd person singulartrickle charges
Present participletrickle charging
Past simpletrickle charged
Past participletrickle charged

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytrickle charge
he, she, ittrickle charges

Past simpleLesson

all personstrickle charged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave trickle charged
he, she, ithas trickle charged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill trickle charge

Antonyms

2 antonyms
fast chargefast-charge

Word family

1 related words
Derivedtrickle charger

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
trickA2trickerytrickletrickstertrickyB2tricolour
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