(electricity) An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus, electrons flow inwards). It usually, but not always, has a positive voltage.

plural of cathode

(anatomy) Proceeding from a nerve centre; efferent. / (physics) Of or pertaining to a cathode.

(biochemistry) Attracted towards a cathode

At, near, or while acting as a cathode

Towards a cathode.

(of a vacuum tube or fluorescent lamp) not heated by a filament

The heated cathode of a thermionic valve

(electricity) A ray consisting of a stream of electrons in a vacuum tube, that are emitted by the cathode and accelerated towards the anode by an electric field.

plural of hot cathode