electrode

See also: électrode

English

Etymology

Coined by English scientist Michael Faraday in 1833, first used in his Diary (laboratory notebook) from the Ancient Greek words ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, “amber”) (from which the word electricity is derived) and ὁδός (hodós, “way”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈlɛk.tɹəʊd/, /iˈlɛk.tɹəʊd/

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Noun

electrode (plural electrodes)

1. The terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit.
   • 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

     From my laboratory in the Castle east
     To the master bedroom, where the vampires feast
     The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
     To get a jolt from my electrodes
     They did the Mash
     They did the Monster Mash.

2. A collector or emitter of electric charge in a semiconducting device.

Derived terms

• calomel electrode
• Clark electrode
• electrode potential
• glass electrode
• hydrogen electrode
• hydrogen gas electrode
• ion-selective electrode
• ion selective electrode
• normal hydrogen electrode
• potassium selective electrode
• reference electrode
• standard electrode potential
• standard hydrogen electrode

 

Translations

the terminal through which electric current passes

• Albanian: elektrodë (sq) f
• Arabic: إِلِكْتْرُود m (ʔiliktrūd)
• Armenian: էլեկտրոդ (hy) (ēlektrod)
• Asturian: electrodu m
• Azerbaijani: elektrod
• Basque: elektrodo
• Belarusian: электро́д m (eljektród)
• Bulgarian: електро́д (bg) m (elektród)
• Catalan: elèctrode m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電極／电极 (zh) (diànjí)

• Czech: elektroda (cs) f
• Danish: elektrode c
• Dutch: elektrode (nl) f
• Esperanto: elektrodo
• Estonian: elektrood
• Faroese: ravkleiv f, kleiv f, elektroda f
• Finnish: elektrodi (fi)
• French: électrode (fr) f
• Georgian: ელექტროდი (elekṭrodi)
• German: Elektrode (de) f
• Greek: ηλεκτρόδιο (el) n (ilektródio)
• Gujarati: વીજધ્રુવ (vījadhruv)
• Hawaiian: ʻūholo uila
• Hebrew: אֶלֶקְטְרוֹדָה (he) f (elektróda)
• Hindi: विद्युदग्र m (vidyudagra), इलेक्ट्रोड m (ilekṭroḍ), इलैक्ट्रोड m (ilaikṭroḍ)
• Hungarian: elektróda (hu)
• Icelandic: rafskaut n, skaut n, rafpóll m, rafnemi m
• Italian: elettrodo (it) m
• Japanese: 電極 (ja) (でんきょく, denkyoku)
• Kazakh: электрод (élektrod)
• Khmer: អសនីបថ (ʼaʼsaʼniibɑt), អេឡិចត្រូត (ʼeeləctrout)
• Korean: 전극(電極) (ko) (jeon'geuk)
• Kyrgyz: электрод (ky) (elektrod)
• Latvian: elektrods m
• Lithuanian: elektrodas m
• Macedonian: електро́да f (elektróda)
• Malay: elektrod (ms)
• Manx: lectroyd f
• Maori: pitohiko, tia kawehiko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: elektrode m

  Nynorsk: elektrode m

• Polish: elektroda (pl) f
• Portuguese: eletrodo (pt) m
• Romanian: electrod (ro) m
• Russian: электро́д (ru) m (elektród)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: електро́да f

  Roman: elektróda (sh) f

• Slovak: elektróda (sk) f
• Slovene: elektroda f
• Spanish: electrodo (es) m
• Swahili: elektrodi
• Swedish: elektrod (sv) c
• Tagalog: dagindas
• Tajik: электрод (tg) (elektrod)
• Thai: อิเล็กโทรด, ลวดเชื่อม, ขั้วเชื่อม
• Turkish: elektrot (tr)
• Ukrainian: електро́д m (elektród)
• Uzbek: elektrod (uz)
• Vietnamese: điện cực (vi) (電極)

See also

• -ode
• cathode
• anode

Anagrams

• electroed