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9 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit
originCoined by British scientist Michael Faraday in 1833, first used in his Diary (laboratory notebook) from the Ancient Greek words ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, “amber”) (from which the word electricity is derived) and ὁδός (hodós, “way”). By surface analysis, electro- + -ode
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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