cathode : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cathode	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cathode n a negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons entering an electrical device Antonym(s): anode the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current Antonym(s): anode
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cathode \Cath"ode\, n. [Gr. [?] descent; [?] down + [?] way.] (Physics) The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. --Faraday. {Cathode ray} (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge