Associations to the word «Electrode»

Wiktionary

ELECTRODE, noun. The terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit
ELECTRODE, noun. A collector or emitter of electric charge in a semiconducting device
ELECTRODE POTENTIAL, noun. (chemistry) (physics) the potential difference of a half-reaction which occurs across a reversible cell made up of any electrode and a standard hydrogen electrode

Dictionary definition

ELECTRODE, noun. A conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats