Anode Definition

ănōd
anodes
noun
anodes
A positively charged electrode, as of an electrolytic cell, storage battery, or electron tube.
American Heritage
In an electroplating cell, the positively charged electrode, toward which current flows.
Webster's New World
The negatively charged terminal of a primary cell or of a storage battery that is supplying current.
American Heritage
In an electron tube, the principal electrode for collecting electrons, operated at a positive potential with respect to the cathode.
Webster's New World
In a battery that is a source of electric current, as a dry cell or storage battery, the negative electrode from which the electrons are released to the external circuit.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Anode

Noun

Singular:
anode
Plural:
anodes

Origin of Anode

  • Greek anodos a way up ana- ana- hodos way

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἄνοδος (anodos, “way up”).

    From Wiktionary

Anode Sentence Examples

  • The chlorine escapes at the anode, the hydrogen at the cathode.

  • Jahn, 2 the processes at the anode can be represented by the equations 2CH 3 000+H 2 0 =2CH3 000H+0 2 C H 3.

  • Sherard Cowper Coles patented a process in which, working with a high current density, a lead anode is used, and powdered zinc is kept suspended in the solution to maintain the proportion of zinc in the electrolyte, and so to guard against the gradual acidification of the bath.

  • The concentration of the simple copper ions is then so much diminished that the copper plate becomes an anode with regard to zinc. Thus the cell - copper I potassium cyanide solution I potassium sulphate solution - zinc sulphate solution I zinc - gives a current which carries copper into solution and deposits zinc. In a similar way silver could be made to act as anode with respect to cadmium.

  • Gold is left in the anode slime when copper or silver are refined by the usual processes, but if the gold preponderate in the anode these processes are inapplicable.

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