conductor

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  • IPA: /kənˈdʌktɚ/, SAMPA: /k@n"dVkt@`/
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conductor (plural conductors)

  1. (music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
  2. A person who takes tickets on public transportation
    train conductor
  3. Something which can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound.
  4. (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.

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conductor (genitive conductōris); m, third declension

  1. employer, entrepreneur
  2. contractor
  3. (physics) conductor (of heat, electricity etc)

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Number Singular Plural
nominative conductor conductōrēs
genitive conductōris conductōrum
dative conductōrī conductōribus
accusative conductōrem conductōrēs
ablative conductōre conductōribus
vocative conductor conductōrēs

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conductor m. (plural conductores, feminine singular conductora, feminine plural conductoras)

  1. driver
  2. conductor (Something which can transmit electricity, heat, light or sound)

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