electrode

See also: électrode

English

Etymology

Coined by British 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
2. a collector or emitter of electric charge in a semiconducting device

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
• Bulgarian: електро́д (bg) m (elektród)
• Catalan: elèctrode m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電極 (zh), 电极 (zh) (diànjí)

• Czech: elektroda (cs) f
• Danish: elektrode c
• Esperanto: elektrodo
• Faroese: ravkleiv f, kleiv f, elektroda f
• Finnish: elektrodi (fi)
• French: électrode (fr) f
• German: Elektrode (de) f
• Greek: ηλεκτρόδιο (el) n (ilektródio)
• 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 (ja) (でんきょく, denkyoku)
• Kazakh: электрод (elektrod)
• Korean: 전극(電極) (ko) (jeon'geuk)
• Kyrgyz: электрод (ky) (elektrod)
• Manx: lectroyd f
• Maori: pitohiko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: elektrode m

  Nynorsk: elektrode m

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

  Cyrillic: електро́да f

  Roman: elektróda (sh) f

• Slovak: elektróda (sk) f
• Spanish: electrodo (es) m
• Swahili: elektrodi
• Swedish: elektrod (sv) c
• Tagalog: dagindas
• Vietnamese: điện cực (電極)

See also

• -ode
• cathode
• anode

Anagrams

• electroed