ELECTRODE

Electrode

An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit . The word was coined by the scientist Michael Faraday from the Greek words elektron and hodos, a way.

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electrode

Noun

  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


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