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Electrode

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A solid electric conductor through which an electric current enters or leaves an electrolytic cell or other medium.

n. A collector or emitter of electric charge or of electric-charge carriers, as in a semiconducting device.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. the terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit

n. a collector or emitter of electric charge in a semiconducting device

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. a conducting object by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other non-metallic conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A pole of the current from an electric battery or machine which is in use in effecting electrolysis: applied generally to the two ends of an open electric circuit. The positive pole is termed the anode, and the negative pole the cathode.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit

Word Usage

"A study last year from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that plants generate a voltage of up to 200 millivolts when one electrode is placed in a plant and the other in the surrounding soil."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

conductor

Cross Reference

non-polarizable electrode brush electrode indifferent electrode calomel electrode anode

Hyponym

collector electron gun base grid anode

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