Electrode
noun
A conductor of electricity, usually a metal, which is used to connect an object to a source of electricity.
The battery has a positive electrode and a negative electrode.
Often appears as...
- positive electrode
- negative electrode
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Academic
noun
A tool used to insert electricity into something, like your body, during medical treatments.
In electroconvulsive therapy, an electrode is attached to the patient's head.
Often appears as...
- patient's electrode
- treatment electrode
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Technical
noun
A device used in scientific experiments that produces electricity by changing a chemical or physical process.
In the science lab, she set up an experiment using a metal electrode.
Often appears as...
- metal electrode
- lab electrode
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Academic
noun
A conductor of electricity, usually a metal, which is used to connect an object to a source of electricity.
The battery has a positive electrode and a negative electrode.
Often appears as...
- positive electrode
- negative electrode
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A tool used to insert electricity into something, like your body, during medical treatments.
In electroconvulsive therapy, an electrode is attached to the patient's head.
Often appears as...
- patient's electrode
- treatment electrode
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A device used in scientific experiments that produces electricity by changing a chemical or physical process.
In the science lab, she set up an experiment using a metal electrode.
Often appears as...
- metal electrode
- lab electrode
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Circuit Element
An electrode is a crucial part of an electrical circuit.
Connect the electrode to complete the circuit.
Pro Tip 2/3Battery Terminals
Electrodes are found on batteries, labeled as '+' (positive) and '-' (negative).
Attach red to the positive electrode of the battery.
Pro Tip 3/3Connection Point
Use 'electrode' when referring to points where wires connect in electrical devices.
Solder the wire to the electrode on the device.
Pro Tip 1/3Circuit Element
An electrode is a crucial part of an electrical circuit.
Connect the electrode to complete the circuit.
Pro Tip 2/3Battery Terminals
Electrodes are found on batteries, labeled as '+' (positive) and '-' (negative).
Attach red to the positive electrode of the battery.
Pro Tip 3/3Connection Point
Use 'electrode' when referring to points where wires connect in electrical devices.
Solder the wire to the electrode on the device.
Pro Tip 1/3Circuit Element
An electrode is a crucial part of an electrical circuit.
Connect the electrode to complete the circuit.
Pro Tip 2/3Battery Terminals
Electrodes are found on batteries, labeled as '+' (positive) and '-' (negative).
Attach red to the positive electrode of the battery.
Pro Tip 3/3Connection Point
Use 'electrode' when referring to points where wires connect in electrical devices.
Solder the wire to the electrode on the device.
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A robot that runs and...
it can still run for a while, showing that just the lower part, spinal cord and body, already solve a big part of locomotion. Now, understanding how this works is very complex, because first of all, recording activity in the spinal cord is very difficult. It's much easier to implant electrodes in the motor cortex than in the spinal cord, because it's protected by the vertebrae.
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How to control someone...
Greg All right, Sam, I'm going to record from your brain. Have you had this before? I need you to stick out your arm for science, roll up your sleeve a bit, So what I'm going to do, I'm putting electrodes on your arm, and you're probably wondering, I just said I'm going to record from your brain, what am I doing with your arm?
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National Geographic...
So, this is the basis of the device that we've created. Not only recording from one cell, but taking the pattern of many, many neurons and trying to relate what the person is thinking about to what something in the real world will do. And this is the set-up that we have. The person has this electrode array
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How do brain scans work?...
Unfortunately, it’s hard to determine exactly where any particular pattern originates. Electrical signals are generated constantly all over the brain and they interact with each other to produce complex patterns. Using more electrodes or sophisticated data-processing algorithms can help.
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What happens when our...
When the A.I. is weak, it performs useful or amusing actions that cause its user to smile. When the A.I. becomes superintelligent, it realizes that there is a more effective way to achieve this take control of the world and stick electrodes into the facial muscles of humans
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Sleep is your superpower...
that restores and enhances your memory and learning ability each and every day? And by placing electrodes all over the head, what we've discovered is that there are big, powerful brainwaves that happen during the very deepest stages of sleep that have riding on top of them
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Asking where consciousnes...
itself so I decided why not watch this in the operating room so I decided to measure and observe my brain my patients brains as they move through losing and regaining consciousness and the way in which I did that was by putting an electrode array on their forehead and
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The brain may be able to...
It's a doctor who is trying to improve a neurological function through different surgical strategies. You've certainly heard of one of the famous ones called deep brain stimulation, where you implant an electrode in the depths of the brain
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Donald Sadoway: The...
row after row of cells that, inside, resemble Volta's battery, with three important differences. Volta's battery works at room temperature. It's fitted with solid electrodes and an electrolyte that's a solution of salt and water.
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The brain benefits of...
We learned that we could accurately track sleep without hooking people up to electrodes and make people sleep deeper. We're continuing to develop the right sound environment and sleep habitat to improve people's sleep health.
Video examples
A robot that runs and...
it can still run for a while, showing that just the lower part, spinal cord and body, already solve a big part of locomotion. Now, understanding how this works is very complex, because first of all, recording activity in the spinal cord is very difficult. It's much easier to implant electrodes in the motor cortex than in the spinal cord, because it's protected by the vertebrae.
Video examples
How to control someone...
Greg All right, Sam, I'm going to record from your brain. Have you had this before? I need you to stick out your arm for science, roll up your sleeve a bit, So what I'm going to do, I'm putting electrodes on your arm, and you're probably wondering, I just said I'm going to record from your brain, what am I doing with your arm?
Video examples
National Geographic...
So, this is the basis of the device that we've created. Not only recording from one cell, but taking the pattern of many, many neurons and trying to relate what the person is thinking about to what something in the real world will do. And this is the set-up that we have. The person has this electrode array
Video examples
How do brain scans work?...
Unfortunately, it’s hard to determine exactly where any particular pattern originates. Electrical signals are generated constantly all over the brain and they interact with each other to produce complex patterns. Using more electrodes or sophisticated data-processing algorithms can help.
Video examples
What happens when our...
When the A.I. is weak, it performs useful or amusing actions that cause its user to smile. When the A.I. becomes superintelligent, it realizes that there is a more effective way to achieve this take control of the world and stick electrodes into the facial muscles of humans
Video examples
Sleep is your superpower...
that restores and enhances your memory and learning ability each and every day? And by placing electrodes all over the head, what we've discovered is that there are big, powerful brainwaves that happen during the very deepest stages of sleep that have riding on top of them
Video examples
Asking where consciousnes...
itself so I decided why not watch this in the operating room so I decided to measure and observe my brain my patients brains as they move through losing and regaining consciousness and the way in which I did that was by putting an electrode array on their forehead and
Video examples
The brain may be able to...
It's a doctor who is trying to improve a neurological function through different surgical strategies. You've certainly heard of one of the famous ones called deep brain stimulation, where you implant an electrode in the depths of the brain
Video examples
Donald Sadoway: The...
row after row of cells that, inside, resemble Volta's battery, with three important differences. Volta's battery works at room temperature. It's fitted with solid electrodes and an electrolyte that's a solution of salt and water.
Video examples
The brain benefits of...
We learned that we could accurately track sleep without hooking people up to electrodes and make people sleep deeper. We're continuing to develop the right sound environment and sleep habitat to improve people's sleep health.
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Charles Platt
English Author
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
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Jerry Lewis
American Comedian
This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?
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Maria Konnikova
American Writer
Electrodes aren't the only things we may someday start implanting in our brains. Consider what you could do with a chip in your head that linked directly to the Internet: Within milliseconds, you could retrieve just about any piece of information.
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Martin Fleischmann
English Scientist
I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.
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Daniel Day-Lewis
British Actor
As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.
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Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss Scientist
It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.
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Lars Onsager
Norwegian Scientist
The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
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Alice Weaver Flaherty
American Scientist
It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.
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Charles Platt
English Author
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.
Quote examples
Jerry Lewis
American Comedian
This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?
Quote examples
Maria Konnikova
American Writer
Electrodes aren't the only things we may someday start implanting in our brains. Consider what you could do with a chip in your head that linked directly to the Internet: Within milliseconds, you could retrieve just about any piece of information.
Quote examples
Martin Fleischmann
English Scientist
I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.
Quote examples
Daniel Day-Lewis
British Actor
As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.
Quote examples
Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss Scientist
It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.
Quote examples
Lars Onsager
Norwegian Scientist
The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
Quote examples
Alice Weaver Flaherty
American Scientist
It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.
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