diode

See also: Diode and díode

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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Noun

diode (plural diodes)

1. (electronics) An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
   • 1919 April 18, William Eccles, Electrician, page 475:

     I propose to give the name diode to a tube with two electrodes.

   • 1949, Samuel Silver, Microwave Antenna Theory and Design‎^[1], page 593:

     If a crystal or a diode is used, the amplifier-voltmeter combination may be used with an amplitude-modulated source; or with a c-w source, the detector may be connected to a microammeter or galvanometer as an indicating device.

   • 2005, Robert Diffenderfer, Electronic Devices: Systems and Applications‎^[2], page 69:

     In this circuit when the diode is forward biased, the voltage across the diode remains fairly close to the diode's barrier potential.

Coordinate terms

• bias
• capacitor
• conductor
• drain
• emitter
• inductor
• insulator
• memristor
• resistor
• source
• transistor

 

Derived terms

• light-emitting diode, LED
• photodiode
• Zener diode

 

Related terms

• anode
• cathode
• electrode
• heptode
• hexode
• nonode
• octode
• pentode
• tetrode
• triode

 

Descendants

• → French: diode (see there for further descendants)

Translations

electronic device

• Arabic: صِمَام ثُنَائِيّ‎ m (ṣimām ṯunāʾiyy), ثَنَائِي دِيُود‎ m (ṯanāʾī diyūd)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: diodo (eu)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: díode (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: dioda (cs) f
• Danish: diode (da) c
• Dutch: diode (nl) f
• Esperanto: diodo (eo)
• Finnish: diodi (fi)
• French: diode (fr) f
• Galician: díodo m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Diode (de) f
• Greek: δίοδος (el) m (díodos)

• Hebrew: דיודה‎ (he) f (dioda)
• Hindi: डायोड (ḍāyoḍ)
• Hungarian: dióda (hu)
• Icelandic: díóða f, tvistur m, tvískauta rör n, tvískauti m
• Japanese: ダイオード (ja) (daiōdo)
• Korean: 다이오드 (ko) (daiodeu)
• Norwegian: diode (no) m
• Persian: دیود‎ (fa) (diyod)
• Polish: dioda (pl) f
• Portuguese: diodo (pt) m
• Russian: дио́д (ru) m (diód)
• Serbo-Croatian: диода f (dioda)
• Spanish: diodo (es) m
• Swedish: diod (sv) c
• Tagalog: duhandas, diyodo
• Thai: ไดโอด (daiòht)
• Turkish: diyot (tr)
• Vietnamese: ống hai cực, bóng lưỡng cực, đèn lưỡng cực

Anagrams

• Dodie, Edoid

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̥iˈoːðə/

Noun

diode

1. (electronics) diode

Declension

Declension of diode

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	diode	dioden	dioder	dioderne
genitive	diodes	diodens	dioders	diodernes

See also

• pn-overgang (“p-n junction”)
• lederretning (“direction of forward bias”)
• spærreretning (“direction of reverse bias”)

Further reading

• “diode” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Etymology

From English diode.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

diode f (plural diodes)

1. (electronics) diode

Descendants

• → Turkish: diyot

Further reading

• “diode” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).