diode

See also: Diode

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

di- +‎ -ode Learned formation, coined by William Eccles in 1919, after Greek δίοδος.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪəʊd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪoʊd/

Noun

diode (plural diodes)

1. An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; a valve.
2. A two-terminal semiconductor device, having a p-n junction, used chiefly as a rectifier.

Translations

electronic device

• Arabic: صمام ثنائي m, ثنائي ديود m (thanaa'iy diyuud)
• Basque: diodo (eu)
• Catalan: díode m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 二極管 (zh), 二极管 (zh) (èrjíguǎn)

• Czech: dioda f
• Danish: diode c
• Dutch: diode (nl) f
• Esperanto: diodo (eo)
• Finnish: diodi (fi)
• French: diode (fr) f
• German: Diode (de) f
• Greek: δίοδος (el) m (díodos)
• Hebrew: דיודה (he) f (dioda)

• Hindi: डायोड (ḍāyōḍ)
• Icelandic: díóða f, tvistur m, tvískauta rör n, tvískauti m
• Japanese: ダイオード (daiōdo)
• Korean: 다이오드 (ko) (daiodeu)
• Norwegian: diode (no) m
• Polish: dioda (pl) f
• Portuguese: diodo (pt) m
• Russian: диод (ru) m (diód)
• Serbo-Croatian: диода f (dioda)
• Spanish: diodo (es) m
• Swedish: diod (sv) c
• Tagalog: duhandas, diyodo
• Thai: ไดโอด (daiòht)

Related terms

valve (vacuum tube)

electrode anode cathode triode tetrode

pentode hexode heptode octode nonode

Derived terms

active semiconductor component

LED

photodiode Zener diode

Anagrams

• Dodie