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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
{Cathode ray} (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode
in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cathode
n : negative pole [ant: {anode}]
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