Electrode

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  • noun. A solid electric conductor through which an electric current enters or leaves an electrolytic cell or other medium.
  • noun. A collector or emitter of electric charge or of electric-charge carriers, as in a semiconducting device.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit
  • noun. a collector or emitter of electric charge in a semiconducting device
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit
    • Word Usage
    "In these a dropping mercury electrode is employed to determine current-voltage curves for electrolytes."
    cross-reference
    -ode  anode  brush electrode  calomel electrode  cathode  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    conductor  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    anode  base  cathode  collector  control grid  
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    alloy  carbon  coil  conductor  core  
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