Conduction Definition

kən-dŭkshən
noun
A conveying, as of liquid through a channel, esp. in plants.
Webster's New World
Transmission of electricity, heat, etc. through a material.
Webster's New World

Conductivity.

Webster's New World
The transmission of nerve impulses.
Webster's New World

The act of leading or guiding.

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Noun

Singular:
conduction
Plural:
conductions

Origin of Conduction

  • From Old French conduction, from Latin conductio (“a bringing together”).

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Conduction Sentence Examples

  • Here we have an instance of the conduction of heat.

  • His most important work was concerned with the conduction of heat and with spectroscopy.

  • This will be composed of a conduction and a convection current, the latter due to rising or falling air currents carrying ions.

  • This method of communication by magnetic induction through space establishes, therefore, a second method of wireless telegraphy which is quite independent of and different from that due to conduction through earth or water.

  • The mathematical theory of conduction of heat was developed early in the 19th century by Fourier and other workers, and was brought to so high a pitch of excellence that little has remained for later writers to add to this department of the subject.

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