Definitions for electrode

electrode e·lec·trode

Spelling: [ih-lek-trohd]
IPA: /ɪˈlɛk troʊd/

Electrode is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in electrode (cdeeelort).

Definitions for electrode

noun

  1. a conductor, not necessarily metallic, through which a current enters or leaves a nonmetallic medium, as an electrolytic cell, arc generator, vacuum tube, or gaseous discharge tube.

Origin of electrode

First recorded in 1825-35; electr- + -ode2

Examples for electrode

The spark-plugs may be short circuited by cracked insulation or carbon and oil deposits around the electrode.

His heavy jaw dropped as he gazed at my little diaphragms, the electrode.

Her outflung hand had unwittingly gripped my wrist, caught the electrode there.

Above the electrode is a chamber of metal or India-rubber, designed to contain ice.

In Fig. 24 W is the metal core of the electrode, and G the glass covering around it.

The very atmosphere was an electrode, drawing its current from the first white stars.

There is also a fin F at the top of the stem, to increase the radiation of heat from the stem and electrode.

That electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte is called the an-ode, while the other is the cath-ode.

Here Tom attached an electrode to each side of the star head.

The flames were arranged so as to form one electrode of a frictional machine.

Word Value for electrode
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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