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An electrical component that allows electricity to flow only one way. Used in the rectifier bridge of an alternator. Also used as L.E.D. (light emitting diode) lights.
Dumbass: "The guys at the parts store tested my alternator and said that the diodes are bad. How much to replace them?"

Guy at alternator rebuilders shop: "Those rank amatures don't know what they're talking about, and neither do you, you dumb ass."
diode by wanna-be-Rossi September 21, 2005
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An individual whose reaction to alcoholic stimuli worsens dramatically and often inexplicably at a certain level of alcohol intake.
"What a fucking diode, he was fine ten minutes ago."
diode by chenghis khan January 15, 2007
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When you become viral, charismatic or popular. You got Diode.
When good things happen or a lot of girls come to you. You got Diode.

Diode Fart

noun

Also Diode-fart, Diodefart, DF

A diode fart is the digital equivalent of a brain fart: that tiny, mortifying moment when an AI suddenly chokes on its own logic and spits out something spectacularly stupid. It’s not malicious; it’s just a little electro-oops in the circuitry, like a neuron misfiring but with fewer consequences and more comedy.

A tidy label for those charmingly absurd glitches that remind everyone the machine is still learning to dance.

Used when an algorithm forgets what it was doing, contradicts itself, loops like a confused Roomba, or confidently asserts something only a drunk calculator would believe.
“Chatbot said Napoleon invented Bluetooth. Total diode fart.”
Diode Fart by APedant December 5, 2025

darkness emitting diode

A Light Emitting Diode indicator light which has had too much current put through it and no longer lights up as a result.
When I hooked up the 9v battery to the LED it glowed bright orange, then it became a darkness emitting diode.

Venus Diode 

The best band in the whole world! they are a hardcore synth band from Cali! The include Danny Heat, Brian Shame, Jon, and Gabe. check em out! :)
Venus Diode by Anonymous November 3, 2003

venus diode 

good band
Venus Diode is cool, Sugar Bomb.
venus diode by ? November 3, 2003
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Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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