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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) cathode
the electrode or terminal by which current leaves an electrolytic cell, voltaic cell, battery, etc.

2. cathode
the positive terminal of a voltaic cell or battery.

3. cathode
the negative terminal, electrode, or element of an electron tube or electrolytic cell.

Etymology: (1825–35; < Gk káthodos a way down)

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) cathode
a negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons entering an electrical device

2. (noun) cathode
the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current

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Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) cathode
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

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