How to Use electrode in a Sentence

electrode

noun
  • The pedestal is wired to electrodes that rest on the surface of the brain.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • When a neuron in the organoids fired, one of the electrodes would light up.
    New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The lead with the electrode at the end goes from the chest under the skin behind the ear and the skull into the brain.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The electrode is then attached to a piece of nanofiber made up of ... deep breath ...
    Drew Turney, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The Changsha group decided to move the electrode to one end of the tube.
    IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The solid would bear the loads and the liquid would help ions move between the electrodes.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
  • Switch on the electrode next door, and a second dot will appear next to the first one.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The electrodes measure whether the brain is responding to the sounds.
    WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Not only did the hats hold the electrodes in place, but the cats also stopped trying to chew the wires.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
  • To bring about treatment based on this requires electrodes in the brain to help kick it out of this state.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2018
  • As for the other cell electrode, the anode, today most of them are made of graphite.
    John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Guards strapped him down, placed a black hood over his face and attached electrodes to his head and right leg.
    Tribune Media Services, al, 5 Jan. 2020
  • The electrons these electrodes give off, meanwhile, pass through the wire outside the cell.
    John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
  • From there, electrodes are attached to both ends to create a neon sign.
    Jessica Christian, SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
  • The silicon could be used to control the flow of current across the graphene from one electrode to the other.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2022
  • And while the electrodes on the digital crown and the backside of the watch were there, the software to support them hadn’t been released.
    Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 6 Dec. 2018
  • Subcutaneous wires run all the way from that device to each of the electrodes.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The small, round device implanted in the skull is supposed to keep the thin tendrils of electrodes in place.
    Christina Jewett, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • Each cell in the stack has a membrane that separates its two electrodes.
    Kat Friedrich, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Harder to ignore is the electrode stuck to my forehead.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2019
  • One of the two polymer films acts as a channel between source and drain electrodes, while the other acts as a gate.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Chevrolet says that the 8 percent increase is thanks to a change in the chemistry of the cell electrodes in the lithium-ion battery.
    Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The electrode sheets are fed through a small machine, like dough wound through a pasta maker.
    Gregory Barber, Wired, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Then the robot knits 1,024 cobweb-thin electrode tendrils into the gray matter of the brain and rests the puck-like device in the hole.
    Cade Metz, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • To achieve this, Tesla has improved its electrode coating, the process by which the two electrodes are made.
    James Frith, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Today, the electrodes can be placed externally, on the forehead or the surface of the scalp.
    Time, 26 June 2023
  • The procedure uses an electrode that heats the nerves in the facet joints of the back, stopping pain conduction.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The researchers arranged a set of electrodes to recreate that electric field.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2018
  • The quarter-size chip implant has dozens of tiny threadlike electrodes.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
  • That implant involved larger electrodes that were placed on top of the retina.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024

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