WordNet
n. the terminal of a battery that is connected to the negative plate
the pole of a magnet that points toward the south when the magnet is suspended freely [syn: negative magnetic pole, south-seeking pole]
Usage examples of "negative pole".
A current was immediately produced, which was transmitted from the slip of zinc in the bottle to that in the tube, and the two slips having been connected by a metallic wire the slip in the tube became the positive pole, and that in the bottle the negative pole of the apparatus.
I took a step up the drive: I was a magnet's negative pole, the lunar pole.
A current was immediately produced, which was transmitted from the slip of zinc in the bottle to that in the tube, and the two slips having been connected by a metallic wire, the slip in the tube became the positive pole, and that in the bottle the negative pole of the apparatus.
Ive had enough of serving as negative pole for every thersitical machine on this ship.
Then he soldered a shorter wire from the negative pole to the mount.
One tentacle would be pulled to a negative pole, the other to a positive.
Dom was using him as the 'negative pole' of the process of attracting luck.
A third receptacle, placed above the second one, and of double its capacity, receives the hydrogen passing into it by the negative pole.
She was consumed in a fierce tension of opposition, like the negative pole of a magnet.