conduction

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conductio, conductionem (“a bringing together”); equivalent to conduct +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈdʌkʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ʌkʃən

Noun

conduction (countable and uncountable, plural conductions)

1. (physics) The conveying of heat or electricity through material.
2. The act of leading or guiding.
   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, who aſſiſted the Israelites in their conduction through the Wildernes of Pharan.

3. (obsolete) The act of training up.
   • c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     every man has his beginning and conduction

Derived terms

• aberrant conduction
• A-H conduction time
• a-h conduction time
• chondroconduction
• conduction band
• macroconduction
• microconduction
• nonconduction
• osteoconduction
• photoconduction
• semiconduction
• superconduction
• surface-conduction electron-emitter display

 

Translations

conveying of heat or electricity through material

• Bulgarian: проводимост (bg) f (provodimost)
• Czech: vedení (cs) n
• Danish: konduktion c, varmeledning c, varmestrøm c
• Finnish: johtuminen (fi)
• French: conduction (fr) f
• German: Konduktion f, Leitung (de) f
• Hebrew: הולכה‎ f (holakha)
• Malay: konduksi
• Norwegian: ledning c, konduksjon m
• Persian: هدایت‎ (fa), رسانش‎ (fa)
• Portuguese: condução (pt) f
• Russian: проводи́мость (ru) f (provodímostʹ), конду́кция (ru) f (kondúkcija)
• Serbo-Croatian: kondukcija (sh) f
• Spanish: conducción (es) f

the act of leading or guiding

• Bulgarian: водене (bg) n (vodene), ръководене (bg) n (rǎkovodene)
• Finnish: johtaminen (fi), ohjaaminen (fi)
• Portuguese: condução (pt) f

See also

• conduct
• conductivity
• conductor

French

Noun

conduction f (plural conductions)

1. conduction

Further reading

• “conduction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.