Anode (Gr. ana, 'up,' and hodos, 'a way'), a term (see ELECTRICITY, Vol. IV. p. 270) introduced by Faraday to designate the positive pole, or that electrode by which in electrolysis the current enters the electrolyte, or body being decomposed; as opposed to cathode, the negative pole.
Anode
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 298
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