conducible

English

Etymology

From Latin condūcibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈdjuːsɪbəl/, /kənˈduːsɪbəl/

Adjective

conducible (comparative more conducible, superlative most conducible)

1. conducive; tending; contributing
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “III. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     To both , the medium , which is the most propitious and conducible , is air , for glass or water , &c. are not comparable

2. (mathematics) Able to be decomposed into a direct sum of ideals, such that each ideal corresponds to a certain structure or property.
   • 2011, Hans Freudenthal, H. de Vries, Linear Lie Groups, page 185:

     If G (G) is conducible, then R splits directly into a sum of linear subspaces on which G(G) acts irreducibly.

Derived terms

• conducibleness
• conducibly

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “conducible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)