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.
The final filtrate was discarded and the protein of interest was retained on the membrane surface.
At each step, records previously obtained are discarded; the process ends when no new record is generated in this way.
Lysed cells were centrifuged at 2500 g for 15 min and the pellet containing unbroken cells, nuclei, and kinetoplasts was discarded.
If their eyes are primarily circadian in function, have pathways concerned with image formation, color, and motion been discarded?
Due to the rapid development of technologies, quantity of discarded products is rapidly growing.
In this type, modules of collected discarded products are reused if possible, and other modules are recycled.
The authors concluded that the diagnosis of schizophreniform disorder has no value and should be discarded.
Such methods can be viewed as employing a model which determines the information that is discarded or preserved in compression.