Word Meanings - ELECTRODE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.
Related words: (words related to ELECTRODE)
- LEADING EDGE
same as Advancing edge, above. - OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley. - TRAVERSE
Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse. - TRAVERSING
Adjustable laterally; having a lateral motion, or a swinging motion; adapted for giving lateral motion. Traversing plate , one of two thick iron plates at the hinder part of a gun carriage, where the handspike is applied in traversing the piece. - CONVEYER
1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. 2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. Shak. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - CONDUCTIVITY
The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces - TERMINATOR
The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, terminates. - TERMINATIONAL
Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination. - OTHER
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer. - LEADED
Separated by leads, as the lines of a page. (more info) 1. Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows. - TRAVERSER
One who traverses, or denies. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like. - TERMINATE
1. To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line. 2. To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy. 3. Hence, to put the finishing touch - TERMINATION
The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection. (more info) 1. The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. 2. That - OTHERNESS
The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness. - SOLUTION
The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption. Note: When a solvent will not - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - CONVEYANCER
One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill. - TERMINATIVE
Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive. Bp. Rust. -- Ter"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor. - CONVEYOR
A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - MONSEL'S SOLUTION
An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n. - SMOTHER
Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick - JAPAN CURRENT
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion - ISOTHEROMBROSE
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall. - POT LEAD
Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction. - NONSOLUTION
Failure of solution or explanation. - PHASING CURRENT
The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period. - COUNTERPLEAD
To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny. - ALTERNATING CURRENT
A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow. - INTERMINATED
Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside. - ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot. - PLEADINGS
The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - PYROELECTRICITY
Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.