Process of inhibiting continuous or multiple discharges following a single ionizing event in certain types of radiation detectors, particularly in Geiger–Müller counters.
Source:
PAC, 2021, 93, 69. 'Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 93 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0302)