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Electrode  n.  (Elec.) A conducting object by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other non-metallic conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current. Note: Electrodes may be specially designed or made of a special material for particular purposes, as for example silver electrodes used in electroplating.






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"Electrode" Quotes from Famous Books



... for seating the engine on the axle. A separate combustion chamber is cast and bolted to the head. Inside this chamber are located the igniter parts of Frank's electric ignition system. The fixed part, an insulated electrode, is screwed into the right side of the chamber and is connected with the ignition switch outside, to which one of the ignition wires is attached. A breaker arm inside is pinned to a small shaft extending through the top of the ...
— The 1893 Duryea Automobile In the Museum of History and Technology • Don H. Berkebile

... appendages for the vibrating action. But when a patient is under treatment, the conducting-cords, the electrodes, and so much of the patient's person as is traversed by the current while passing from the positive electrode through to the negative electrode, are also included in the whole circuit. And whatever elements may serve to conduct the current in any part of its circuit—be they metal, fluid, nerve, muscle, or bone—the same are all, for the time, component parts of one complete magnet, which, in all its ...
— A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication • Daniel Clark



Words linked to "Electrode" :   control grid, electronic equipment, electrolytic cell, collector, thermionic tube, cathode, electron tube, battery, electric battery, electron gun, thermionic valve, base, anode, thermionic vacuum tube, grid



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