0 past simple and past participle of discard
1 to throw something away or get rid of it because you no longer want or need it:
Discarded food containers and bottles littered the streets.
Any ova with broken or cracked zonae were discarded before and after heat treatment.
The electrophysiological data obtained from these retinae were discarded.
The first response after each intensity increase was therefore discarded.
The first responses of all test epochs were discarded to keep the analysis within the steady state.
The empty cells resulting from discarded responses were filled with the average for that cell.
No subject was responsible for more than five (of 23) missed or discarded responses, and no item for more than five (of 48) such responses.
They suggested that land be individualized and customary rights be discarded.
Such methods can be viewed as employing a model which determines the information that is discarded or preserved in compression.
