anode

Other forms of anode

plural

anodes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anode

What does anode mean?

anode means "a positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anode?

anode has 2 syllables: an-ode. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈæˌnoʊd/.

What is the opposite of anode?

The recorded antonyms are cathode, cathode.

Is anode a common word?

anode is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with anode?

1 word rhymes with anode. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.