Electrode vs. Anode — What's the Difference?

An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a semiconductor, an electrolyte, a vacuum or air).

An anode is an electrode through which the conventional current enters into a polarized electrical device. This contrasts with a cathode, an electrode through which conventional current leaves an electrical device.

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

A positively 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 negatively charged terminal of a primary cell or of 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 inwards (and thus, electrons flow outwards). It can have either a negative or a positive voltage.

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

The electrode at which chemical oxidation of anions takes place, usually resulting in the erosion of metal from 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 which collects electrons emitted by the cathode in 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 p-type material of a p-n junction.

The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; - opposed to cathode.

A positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device

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