(countable) A surname. / (countable) A male given name / A community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada / A township in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada / A town in Delaware, United States

plural of Townsend discharge

A gas ionization process where free electrons, accelerated by a sufficiently strong electric field, give rise to electrical conduction through a gas by avalanche multiplication caused by the ionization of molecules by ion impact.

Synonym of Townsend discharge

plural of Townsend avalanche

Any of the genus Townsendia of wildflowers.

plural of Townsend daisy

A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Washington, United States.

(sociology) A measure of material deprivation within a population, based on four variables: unemployment, non-car ownership, non-home ownership, and household overcrowding.