Exactly what it says on the tin. I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook sound card and I was measuring its output frequency using frequency counter connected to the card's output. Frequency was generated using a program called FrequencyGenerator.
This article contains information about Cathodic Protection. Cathodic Protection is an electrochemical means of corrosion control in which the oxidation reaction in a galvanic cell is concentrated at the anode and suppresses corrosion of the cathode in the same cell. Figure 1 shows a simple cathodic protection system.
1 The cathode is the negatively charged electrode. 2  The cathode attracts cations or positive charge. 3  The cathode is the source of electrons or an electron donor. 4  It may accept positive charge.