diode

See also: Diode and díode

English

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diode

Wikipedia

Etymology

From di- (“two”) +‎ -ode. Learned formation, coined by William Henry Eccles in 1919, after Ancient Greek δίοδος (díodos, “passage through”), which however is formed not with δι- (di-, “two”) but with δια- (dia-, “through”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.əʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.oʊd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪəʊd

Noun

diode (plural diodes)

1. (electronics) An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
   • 1919 April 18, William Eccles, Electrician, page 475:

     I propose to give the name diode to a tube with two electrodes.

   • 1949, Samuel Silver, Microwave Antenna Theory and Design‎, page 593:

     If a crystal or a diode is used, the amplifier-voltmeter combination may be used with an amplitude-modulated source; or with a c-w source, the detector may be connected to a microammeter or galvanometer as an indicating device.

   • 2005, Robert Diffenderfer, Electronic Devices: Systems and Applications‎, page 69:

     In this circuit when the diode is forward biased, the voltage across the diode remains fairly close to the diode's barrier potential.

Coordinate terms

• bias
• capacitor
• conductor
• drain
• emitter
• inductor
• insulator
• memristor
• resistor
• source
• transistor

Derived terms

• diodelaser
• diodelike
• diodic
• Gunn diode
• junction diode
• laser diode
• light-emitting diode, LED
• microdiode
• nanodiode
• photodiode
• Schottky diode
• tunnel diode
• Zener diode

Related terms

• anode
• cathode
• electrode
• heptode
• hexode
• nonode
• octode
• pentode
• tetrode
• triode

Descendants

• → French: diode (see there for further descendants)
• → Korean: 다이오드 (daiodeu)
• → Spanish: diodo
  • → Basque: diodo
• → Welsh: deuod

Translations

electronic device

Arabic: صِمَام ثُنَائِيّ m (ṣimām ṯunāʔiyy), ثَنَائِي دِيُود m (ṯanāʔī diyūd) Armenian: դիոդ (hy) (diod) Basque: diodo (eu) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: díode (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 二極管 / 二极管 (zh) (èrjíguǎn) Czech: dioda (cs) f Danish: diode (da) c Dutch: diode (nl) f Esperanto: diodo (eo) Finnish: diodi (fi) French: diode (fr) f Galician: díodo (gl) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Diode (de) f Greek: δίοδος (el) m (díodos) Hebrew: דיודה (he) f (dioda) Hindi: डायोड (hi) (ḍāyoḍ) Hungarian: dióda (hu) Icelandic: díóða f, tvistur m, tvískauta rör n, tvískauti m Indonesian: diode (id) Italian: diodo (it) m Japanese: ダイオード (ja) (daiōdo) Korean: 다이오드 (ko) (daiodeu) Macedonian: дио́да (mk) f (dióda) Malay: diod (ms) Maori: ngōhiko, whāhutahi Norwegian: diode (no) m Persian: دیود (fa) (diyod) Polish: dioda (pl) f Portuguese: díodo m Romanian: diodă (ro) f Russian: дио́д (ru) m (diód) Serbo-Croatian: диода f (dioda) Spanish: diodo (es) m Swedish: diod (sv) c Tagalog: duhandas, diyodo Thai: ไดโอด (daiòht) Turkish: diyot (tr) Vietnamese: ống hai cực, bóng lưỡng cực, đèn lưỡng cực, điôt Welsh: deuod m

Anagrams

• Dodie, Edoid

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̥iˈoːðə/

Noun

diode

1. (electronics) diode

Declension

Declension of diode

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	diode	dioden	dioder	dioderne
genitive	diodes	diodens	dioders	diodernes

See also

• pn-overgang (“p-n junction”)
• lederretning (“direction of forward bias”)
• spærreretning (“direction of reverse bias”)

Further reading

• “diode” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English diode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djɔd/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France):

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Noun

diode f (plural diodes)

1. (electronics) diode

Descendants

• → Turkish: diyot

Further reading

• “diode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

diode

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Dutch diode, from English diode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈodə/
• Hyphenation: di‧o‧dê
• Rhymes: -də, -ə

Noun

diodê (plural diode-diode)

1. (electronics) diode

Alternative forms

• diod (Standard Malay)
• dioda

Derived terms

• diode elektronika

Further reading

• “diode”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016