Electrode vs. Cathode: What's the Difference?

A solid electric conductor through which an electric current enters or leaves an electrolytic cell or other medium.

A negatively charged electrode, as of an electrolytic cell, storage battery, diode, or electron tube.

A collector or emitter of electric charge or of electric-charge carriers, as in a semiconducting device.

The positively charged terminal of a primary cell or a storage battery that is supplying current.

The terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit.

(electricity) An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It usually, but not always, has a positive voltage.

A collector or emitter of electric charge in a semiconducting device.

The electrode at which chemical reduction of cations takes place, usually resulting in the deposition of metal onto the electrode.

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.

(electronics) The electrode from which electrons are emitted into a vacuum tube or gas-filled tube.

A conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit

(electronics) That electrode of a semiconductor device which is connected to the n-type material of a p-n junction.

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.

A negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons in an electrical device

The positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current