diode

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.əʊd/
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• General-American: /ˈdaɪ.oʊd/
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• rhymes with -aɪəʊd
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• CMU ARPABET: D AY1 OW2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صِمَام ثُنَائِيّ (ṣimām ṯunāʔiyy) — electronic device
• Arabic: ثَنَائِي دِيُود (ṯanāʔī diyūd) — electronic device
• Armenian: դիոդ (diod) — electronic device
• Basque: diodo — electronic device
• Catalan: díode — electronic device
• Chinese Mandarin: 二極管 /二极管 (èrjíguǎn) — electronic device
• Chinese Mandarin: 二極體 /二极体 (èrjítǐ) — electronic device
• Czech: dioda — electronic device
• Danish: diode — electronic device
• Dutch: diode — electronic device
• Esperanto: diodo — electronic device
• Finnish: diodi — electronic device
• French: diode — electronic device
• Galician: díodo — electronic device
• German: Diode — electronic device
• Greek: δίοδος (díodos) — electronic device
• Hebrew: דיודה (dioda) — electronic device
• Hindi: डायोड (ḍāyoḍ) — electronic device
• Hungarian: dióda — electronic device
• Icelandic: díóða — electronic device
• Icelandic: tvistur — electronic device
• Icelandic: tvískauta rör — electronic device
• Icelandic: tvískauti — electronic device
• Indonesian: diode — electronic device
• Italian: diodo — electronic device
• Japanese: ダイオード (daiōdo) — electronic device
• Korean: 다이오드 (daiodeu) — electronic device
• Macedonian: дио́да (dióda) — electronic device
• Malay: diod — electronic device
• Māori: ngōhiko — electronic device
• Māori: whāhutahi — electronic device
• Norwegian Bokmål: diode — electronic device
• Norwegian Nynorsk: diode — electronic device
• Persian: دیود (diyod) — electronic device
• Polish: dioda — electronic device
• Portuguese: díodo — electronic device
• Romanian: diodă — electronic device
• Russian: дио́д (diód) — electronic device
• Serbo-Croatian: дио́да — electronic device
• Serbo-Croatian: dióda — electronic device
• Spanish: diodo — electronic device
• Swedish: diod — electronic device
• Tagalog: duhandas — electronic device
• Tagalog: diyodo — electronic device
• Thai: ไดโอด (daiòht) — electronic device
• Turkish: diyot — electronic device
• Vietnamese: ống hai cực — electronic device
• Vietnamese: bóng lưỡng cực — electronic device
• Vietnamese: đèn lưỡng cực — electronic device
• Vietnamese: điôt — electronic device
• Welsh: deuod — electronic device