ELECTRO-NEGATIVE

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.

2.
a.

Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.

3.
n.

A body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.