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The transmission of heat or electricity or sound
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conduction
Word definitions for conduction in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the transmission of heat or electricity or sound [syn: conductivity ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Conventional double-glazing cuts heat loss by conduction , but can not prevent loss by radiation. ▪ Cooking works by conduction , as heat from the surface is drawn in. ▪ Explanation Heat is transferred through objects by a process ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conduction \Con*duc"tion\ (k[o^]n*d[u^]k"sh[u^]n), n. [L. conductio a bringing together: cf. F. conduction.] The act of leading or guiding. --Sir W. Raleigh. The act of training up. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. (Physics) Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "hiring;" 1540s, "leading, guidance," from Old French conduction "hire, renting," from Latin conductionem (nominative conductio ), noun of action from past participle stem of conducere (see conduce ). Sense of "conducting of a liquid through a channel" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physics English) The conveying of heat or electricity through material. 2 The act of leading or guide. 3 (context obsolete English) The act of training up.
Usage examples of conduction.
Some sort of bioelectric conduction transference, she guessed even as her knees went weak and she collapsed to the rubble-strewn floor, coming to rest atop the buried remains of the Ryol's first victims.
This spiderweb conduction device was damnably simple, but no one yet had survived capture and escaped to tell about it.
Each time the phasers fired, the conduction mesh snapped viciously, sending jolts back into the privateer’s skin.
Flashes of greenish yellow light showed them the Orion conduction mesh building up to suck energy out of the cutter and burn further through her hull.
Likely they were concentrating on the privateer, which continued to dog them in spite of the conduction mesh gradually murdering it.
The heart's electrical conduction system, responsible for coordinating its beating, was severely impaired.
Everyone was a bit worried that the magnetic field might affect her unstable cardiac conduction system, but the urgency of settling on an intracranial diagnosis superseded all other concerns.
The concept grew firmer, throughout the igth century, that nerves conducted stimulations and that the conduction was in the form of an electric current.
Furthermore, since there are so many synapses to be passed (each a bottleneck), conduction of the nerve impulse is in general slow.
This filtering out of bone-conducted sound also means that we are not deafened by the sound of our voice, for we do not hear it through bone conduction chiefly, but through the sound waves carried by the air from mouth to ear.
Nevertheless, bone conduction is a minor factor and adds a resonance and body to our voice we do not hear in others.
No substance capable of carrying electricity by metallic conduction is transparent.
They go up a thousand feet into the cloud layer, where the wire provides a low-resistance conduction pathway and creates a lightning strike.
I thought briefly of cupping my hands and yelling bone conduction!
There's an audible hiss of pink noise as his glasses whisper in his ears, bone conduction providing a serial highway to his wetware.