electrode

See also: électrode

English

Etymology

The word was coined by the scientist Michael Faraday 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/

Noun

electrode (plural electrodes)

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

Related terms

Related terms

• electrode potential

• reference electrode

• standard electrode potential

• standard hydrogen electrode

Translations

the terminal through which electric current passes

• Arabic: إِلِكْتْرُود m (ʾiliktrūd)
• Armenian: էլեկտրոդ (hy) (ēlektrod)
• Asturian: electrodu m
• Basque: elektrodo
• Catalan: elèctrode m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電極 (zh), 电极 (zh) (diànjí)

• Czech: elektroda f
• Esperanto: elektrodo
• Faroese: ravkleiv f, kleiv f, elektroda f
• Finnish: elektrodi (fi)
• French: électrode (fr) f
• German: Elektrode (de) f
• Gujarati: વીજધ્રુવ (vījadhruv)
• Hawaiian: ʻūholo uila

• Hindi: विद्युदग्र (vidyudagra)
• Icelandic: rafskaut n, skaut n, rafpóll m, rafnemi m
• Italian: elettrodo (it) m
• Japanese: 電極 (でんきょく, denkyoku)
• Korean: 전극 (ko) (jeon-geuk) (電極 (ko))
• Manx: lectroyd f
• Polish: elektroda (pl) f
• Portuguese: eletrodo (pt) m
• Russian: электро́д (ru) m (elektród)
• Slovak: elektróda f
• Spanish: electrodo (es) m
• Swahili: elektrodi
• Swedish: elektrod (sv) c
• Tagalog: dagindas
• Vietnamese: điện cực (電極)

See also

• -ode
• cathode
• anode