conductor
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- conductour (obsolete)
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[edit] Noun
conductor (plural conductors)
- (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
- A person who takes tickets on public transportation
- train conductor
- Something which can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
- (mathematics) An ideal of a ring that measures how far it is from being integrally closed
- 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
- If c is the conductor ideal for R in R then prime ideals not containing c correspond to localizations yielding discrete valuation rings.
- 1988, F van Oystaeyen, Lieven Le Bruyn, Perspectives in ring theory
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- non-conductor (3), nonconductor (3), insulator (3)
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[edit] Translations
person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble
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person who takes tickets on public transportation
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something which can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound
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[edit] See also
[edit] Latin
[edit] Noun
conductor (genitive conductōris); m, third declension
- employer, entrepreneur
- contractor
- (physics) conductor (of heat, electricity etc)
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[edit] Descendants
- Russian: конду́ктор (kondúktor)
[edit] Spanish
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conductor m. (plural conductores, feminine singular conductora, feminine plural conductoras)