NOUN
- the pole of a magnet that points toward the north when the magnet is suspended freely
- the terminal of a battery that is connected to the positive plate
How To Use positive pole In A Sentence
- So, too, I said I would treat a negative disease, such as amaurosis or torpidity of liver, with the negative pole, placing the positive pole on either some healthy or morbidly positive part. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
- _ -- On the electrolysis of the ammonical solution the sesquioxide appears at the positive pole. Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.
- The main component of the Sun's magnetic field is similar to a bar magnet, with a positive pole and a negative pole.
- The positive pole carries a positive charge while the negative pole does a negative charge.
- We have what we call in Sanskrit _dvandva_, a series of opposites in creation; such as, the positive pole and the negative, the centripetal force and the centrifugal, attraction and repulsion. Sadhana : the realisation of life
- Electricity will pass through it if the positive pole of the thyristor is connected to a positive voltage and the trigger terminal is giver pulse.
- The positive pole carries a positive charge while the negative pole does a negative charge.
- In both cases the characteristic coloration from permanganic acid is developed by the action of the current at the positive pole; this, however, disappears in the direction of the negative electrode. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
- And if this whole magnet be more and more positive, by regular degrees through all the sections, from its negative to its positive end or pole, then the nearer any given part of it, say the _second section_ -- the patient's person, may be to its positive pole in the negative post, so much the more _positive_ that section or part will be. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
- Now, since the current always runs from the positive to the negative pole, and makes its whole circuit in that direction, it will be readily seen that, from the place on the patient where the positive pole is applied, inward as far as to the central point, the direction of the current may properly be said to be _inward_; and that, from the central point to the place of the negative electrode, where the current comes out, its direction may be said to be _outward_. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication