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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
cathode
    n 1: a negatively charged electrode that is the source of
         electrons entering an electrical device [ant: anode]
    2: the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage
       battery that supplies current [ant: anode]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cathode \Cath"ode\, n. [Gr. ? descent; ? down + ? way.]
   (Physics)
   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. --Faraday.
   [1913 Webster]

   Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode
      in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge.
      [1913 Webster]
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