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electrode
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun electrode has 1 sense
- electrode(n = noun.artifact) - a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit; has particulars: anode, base, cathode, collector, electron gun, emitter, control grid, grid
is a part of battery, electric battery, electrolytic cell, electronic equipment, electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, tube, vacuum tube
is a kind of conductor
CIDE DICTIONARY
electrode, n. [Electro- + Gr. "odo`s way, path: cf. F. électrode.].
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.
"Electrodes may be specially designed or made of a special material for particular purposes, as for example silver electrodes used in electroplating."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
electrode, n. a conductor through which electricity enters or leaves an electrolyte, gas, vacuum, etc.
Etymology
ELECTRIC + Gk hodos way
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