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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
electrode
noun
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▪ Transport of anions out of the cell on the uptake carrier was demonstrated directly using an anion-sensitive electrode just outside the cell.
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▪ However, competing electrode surface reactions and surface film formation can disrupt the surface reaction and reproducible electrochemical transduction may be compromised.
▪ If it works well with polycrystalline electrodes, it could win the day.
▪ In this circumstance, nasopharyngeal electrodes inserted through the nasal cavity may show the epileptic activity more clearly.
▪ Newer electrodes using transparent indium-tin oxide as conductor material have increased the electrode density from 36 to 64 per square millimeter.
▪ The electrodes were made from platinum-blacked platinum gauze to minimize electrode polarization at low frequencies.
▪ There is often little need to control the detector electrode composition with a redox reaction simply driven by an appropriate polarising voltage.
▪ They test their models by sending signals back through the electrodes and observing changes in behavior.
▪ This is so hot that it melts both the steel and the electrode, which is continually eaten away.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Electrode

Electrode \E*lec"trode\ ([-e]*l[e^]k"tr[=o]d), n. [Electro- + Gr. "odo`s way, path: cf. F. ['e]lectrode.] (Elec.) 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.

Note: Electrodes may be specially designed or made of a special material for particular purposes, as for example silver electrodes used in electroplating.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
electrode

"one of the two ends of an open electrical circuit," 1834, coined by English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) from electro- + Greek hodos "way" (see cede) on the same pattern as anode, cathode.

Wiktionary
electrode

n. 1 the terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit 2 a collector or emitter of electric charge in a semiconducting device

WordNet
electrode

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

Wikipedia
Electrode

An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a semiconductor, an electrolyte, a vacuum or air). The word was coined by William Whewell at the request of the scientist Michael Faraday from the Greek words elektron, meaning amber (from which the word electricity is derived), and hodos, a way.

Electrode (disambiguation)

The word electrode has multiple meanings:

  • In electronics, an electrode is a conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit.
  • Electrode is a fictional species from the Pokémon franchise.

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Usage examples of "electrode".

Trays of agarose were slipped into the unit, which had positive and negative electrodes at either end.

Yet considering only 24 electrodes are substituting for thousands of cochlear hair cells, C.

The essentials to be kept in mind were the introduction of a complete block midway in the wire, so that the disturbance of one half should be prevented from reaching the other, and the making of a perfect electrolytic contact for the electrodes leading to the galvanometer.

And she achieves finally the neural transfer mechanism of the golden electrode caps, with their marvels of circuitry hidden beneath the gold rollbed where Loma spends her life.

Sara and I sat outside in the waiting-room, exhausted and frayed and scarcely speaking to each other, Jonathan lay white and silent on his bed, the left side of his face heavily bandaged, a nasogastric tube taped to his right nostril, and electrode leads in his arms.

It did require that a couple remain orgasmic for quite some time, and the electrodes and wiring tended to get caught up around their toes.

Standing, pale and lanky, amid his electrodes and his retorts, there was still something majestic about this man, who, amid all his stupendous good fortune, could still keep his moral sense undazzled by the glitter of his gold.

Instead, the attending is gonna make a small incision and simply cut the leads between the implant capsule and where the electrodes wrap around the vagus nerve.

Ham was being wiped away, but now it whined more freely and the humpback moved the electrodes toward Doc and Monk.

Putting ,graphite electrodes on either side of a bath of salt water generates sodium hydroxide, which is useful in making good-quality soap and is a basic chemical starting point for thousands of other things.

Linder develops electric current directly from the atomic rays by placing collector electrodes in an evacuated chamber containing the polonium or radioactive phosphorus, etc.

Make a tungsten trioxide film on an electrode, stick it in an acidic solution, and apply a negative potential to it.

Jameson hooked up in a few minutes: skin electrodes, blood-pressure cuff, EEG cap, electromyograph, voice analyzer, and the rest of them.

They had not yet placed the electrodes on his head for the electrosleep machine.

I adjusted it so the electrodes pressed against my temples and ran back over the midline of my skull.