Electrode

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit.

    "From my laboratory in the Castle east To the master bedroom, where the vampires feast The ghouls all came from their humble abodes To get a jolt from my electrodes They did the Mash They did the Monster Mash."

  2. 2
    a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit wordnet
  3. 3
    A collector or emitter of electric charge in a semiconducting device.

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componentdeviceelectrical parts and devicesgeneratorpartsrelay

Example

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"The electrode melted and mixed with the steel."

Etymology

Coined by British scientist Michael Faraday in 1833, first used in his Diary (laboratory notebook) from the Ancient Greek words ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, “amber”) (from which the word electricity is derived) and ὁδός (hodós, “way”). By surface analysis, electro- + -ode

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