organic light-emitting diode

1. 1.

   a self-luminous diode (it glows when an electrical field is applied to the electrodes) that does not require backlighting or diffusers

   SynonymsOLED

   Broaderlight-emitting diode

Questions about organic light-emitting diode

What does organic light-emitting diode mean?

organic light-emitting diode means "a self-luminous diode (it glows when an electrical field is applied to the electrodes) that does not require backlighting or diffusers".

What is another word for organic light-emitting diode?

Close synonyms include OLED. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is organic light-emitting diode a common word?

organic light-emitting diode 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.