Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An ion or group of ions having a positive charge and characteristically moving toward the negative electrode in electrolysis.
Wiktionary
- n. chemistry A positively charged ion—opposed to anion.
- n. chemistry The ion in an electrolyzed solution that migrates to the cathode.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.) a positively charged atom, radical, or molecule, which in electrolysis migrates to the cathode; a positive ion; -- opposed to
anion .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a positively charged ion
Etymologies
- Greek kation, something going down, from neuter present participle of katienai, to go down : kat-, kata-, cata- + ienai, to go; see ei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The recession has been among us for long enough now that the "stay-cation" is no longer a novel concept.”
“As a result, the iron cation is released, but the apo-transferrin, which has high affinity for the receptor at acidic pH, remains bound strongly.”
“In the words of soil science, this functioning like a storage battery for minerals is called cation exchange capacity.”
“Any element with a positive charge is called a cation and, for agricultural purposes, it refers to the basic cations, calcium (Ca+2), magnesium (Mg+2), potassium (K+1) and sodium (Na+1) and the acidic cations, hydrogen (H+1) and aluminum (Al+3).”
“Groundwater interactions with surface-water systems greatly influence water quality characteristics such as cation, anion, nutrient, and dissolved organic matter concentrations, and even the fate and behavior of toxic pollutants.”
“If you cant figure out the area of a triangle or what "cation" means, you die! if you cant take down a demon w/a chainsaw or kill a hell prince w/a shotgun, you die! f--- ing snotty rich f--- heads.”
“LOOK at the image title at the top that frontpage sends you to - it says "cation" which means it is an ABSTRACT with some info from the certifiCATE.”
“And so it was with me during my "work-cation," when I spent the dog days thinking about how to make better virtual meetings -- the kind of meetings many employees experience when they're working remotely or enjoying a holiday.”
“A new word, 'stay-cation' entered the tourism industry vocabulary last year.”
“Simply hit "Contribute" below to share your stay-cation spot in New York.”
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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a list of inane -cation variants
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Particularly Interesting
Particles, particles, particles!
atom, molecule, neutron, proton, electron, quark, boson, fermion, antiquark, hadron, lepton, antilepton and 123 more...
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Chem homework will do this to you.
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mcobb's Words
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