: an electronic device that has two electrodes or terminals and is used especially as a rectifier
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Even the obviously tangible Irakli can, through a glitch in the camera’s rustic diodes, all but vanish into the fuzz of a forest or a field.—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025 The light is too harshly angled and full of diodes, too precise, too careful and still somehow not careful enough, not surreal, sepia and tender enough.—Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025 There are more than 1,000 LED diode lights mounted beneath the greenery and orb lighting around the SD.—Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025 Hypothetically, this kind of device can duplicate the performance of anything from a diode to a neuromorphic circuit.—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for diode
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The term was originated by the British physicist William Henry Eccles (1875-1966) in the journal The Electrician, vol. 82, no.16 (April 18, 1919), p. 475.
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