Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An electronic device that restricts current flow chiefly to one direction.
- n. An electron tube having a cathode and an anode.
- n. A two-terminal semiconductor device used chiefly as a rectifier.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of two ways; in elect. teleg., same as duplex.
- n. In botany, the rudimentary or transition body in vascular plants which develops into the prothallium.
Wiktionary
- n. An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; a valve.
- n. A two-terminal semiconductor device, having a p-n junction, used chiefly as a rectifier.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a thermionic tube having two electrodes; used as a rectifier
- n. a semiconductor that consists of a p-n junction
Etymologies
- Learned formation, coined by William Eccles in 1919, after Greek δίοδος. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The evil geniuses* at Wicked Lasers have weaponized a laser for the consumer market by simply (?) rejiggering an unreasonably-powerful blue laser diode from a home theater projector and placing it in a lightsaber casing.”
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“Otellini compared the Obama administration to a "diode" -- an electronic device that conducts electric current in only one direction.”
“The author of the above hypothesis wrote his degree paper on silicon carbide light-emitting diode, that is why the ending of the forth series is the most simple- it is a modern light-emitting diode.”
“A diode is a junction of two types of semiconductor, which only allow electrons to flow in one direction.”
“It looks like something out of "Star Wars," but it's not sci-fi, it's high tech and it's called a diode laser.”
“Don't misunderstand my opinion here ... a diode is a nice feature, but just un-necessary if you are running such a minimal system and you want to maximize what little you have available.”
“This is potentially useful, but the diode is a more important (and difficult) component to replicate.”
“Kozicki said his team was wrestling with how find a way to build an electrical element, called a diode, into the memory cell.”
“Kozicki said his team was wrestling with how to find a way to build an electrical element, called a diode, into the memory cell.”
“The result can be seen to be that a diode is a one way valve for electrons.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘diode’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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lemongrass's Words
ineffable, diode, abraxas, neologism, algorithm, schadenfreude, heresiology, vague, cathartic, quixotic, apocrypha?, quintessence and 103 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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monknoiz's Words
pleonastic, rumination, emanation, logophilia, phrenology, frivolity, frivolous, bits, bobs, bobbins, scuttle, primordial and 51 more...
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Patent Parlance
defining the words that define invention
distal, axial, lateral, external, medial, inferior, anterior, posterior, imbricate, juxtapose, oblique, mating and 20 more...
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Ugly Words
hoary, coarse, ignoramus, gout, visceral, writhe, shriek, sour, move, unctuous, psoriasis, echinacea and 66 more...
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I like: D
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