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Definition of Negative pole

1. Noun. The terminal of a battery that is connected to the negative plate.

2. Noun. The pole of a magnet that points toward the south when the magnet is suspended freely.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Negative Pole

negative focal length negative growth negative ice negative identification negative image negative income tax negative indexing negative interference negative lens negative logic

negative magnetic pole negative meniscus negative muon negative phase negative pledge negative pole (current term) negative pressure negative pressures negative proof negative proofs

negative regulation negative reinforcement negative reinforcer negative reinforcing stimulus negative scotoma negative sense negative side waterproofing negative space negative spaces negative stain

Literary usage of Negative pole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"The fact that the image in many cases is very much reduced in size, shows, indeed, that the cloud, or other body serving as the negative pole, is much more ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"In other words, the nerve near the negative pole is more excitable than In the normal ... It lia* been ascertained that near the negative pole the rate of ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"The sciatic nerve was now insulated upon the handle of the knife, and the negative pole brought in contact with it. The effects were not so strong, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In other word», the nerve near the negative pole is more excitable than ш the normal ... It has been ascertained that near the negative pole the rat« of ..."

5. The Electrical Engineer (1891)
"... protected all but the point by a thick coating of glass, is brought into the centre of the molecular stream in front of the negative pole, A, ..."

6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1856)
"The patient being in the bath, one end of the bath is put in contact with the negative pole of the battery by means of a binding screw, and he is made to ..."

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