debounce
verbUK /diːˈbaʊns/
Etymology From de- + bounce.
1
Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics 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.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Broadly To discard events or signals that should not be processed because they occurred too close together.
- With debouncing, we group several calls to the same events into one; with throttling, we are forcing our call to be executed no more than once per time period, such as a maximum of once per 400 ms.2016, Maximiliano Firtman, High Performance Mobile Web, page 224: