conduction
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin conductio, conductionem (“a bringing together”); equivalent to conduct + -ion.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]conduction (countable and uncountable, plural conductions)
- (physics) The conveying of heat or electricity through material.
- The act of leading or guiding.
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, who aſſiſted the Israelites in their conduction through the Wildernes of Pharan.
- (obsolete) The act of training up.
- c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- every man has his beginning and conduction
Derived terms
[edit]- aberrant conduction
- A-H conduction time
- a-h conduction time
- chondroconduction
- conductional
- conduction band
- conduction time
- electroconduction
- HV conduction time
- intra-atrial conduction time
- macroconduction
- microconduction
- nonconduction
- osteoconduction
- P-A conduction time
- P-H conduction time
- photoconduction
- radioconduction
- semiconduction
- sinoatrial conduction time
- superconduction
- surface-conduction electron-emitter display
Translations
[edit]conveying of heat or electricity through material
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the act of leading or guiding
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See also
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]conduction f (plural conductions)
Further reading
[edit]- “conduction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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