conductivity

English

Etymology

conductive +‎ -ity

Noun

conductivity (countable and uncountable, plural conductivities)

1. The ability of a material to conduct electricity, heat, fluid or sound
2. (physics) The reciprocal of resistivity

Derived terms

• hydraulic conductivity

Related terms

• conductance

Translations

ability to conduct

• Bulgarian: проводимост f (provodimost), електропроводност f (elektroprovodnost)
• Catalan: conductivitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳導率／传导率, 传导率 (chuándǎo lǜ)

• Dutch: geleiding (nl) f
• Finnish: johtavuus (fi)
• French: conductivité (fr) f
• German: Leitfähigkeit (de) f
• Greek: αγωγιμότητα (el) f (agogimótita)
• Hebrew: מוליכות f (molikhut)
• Icelandic: leiðni f
• Irish: seoltacht f
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• Japanese: 伝導性 (でんどうせい, dendōsei)
• Korean: 전도성 (jeondoseong)
• Manx: yn-chondughtaght f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ledningsevne m or f

• Persian: رسانایی (fa)
• Portuguese: condutividade (pt) f
• Romanian: conductivitate (ro) f
• Russian: проводи́мость (ru) f (provodímostʹ), электропрово́дность (ru) f (elektroprovódnostʹ) (electroconductivity), электропроводи́мость (ru) f (elektroprovodímostʹ) (electroconductivity)
• Spanish: conductividad f

reciprocal of resistivity

• Finnish: johtavuus (fi)
• French: conductivité (fr) f
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• Greek: αγωγιμότητα (el) f (agogimótita)
• Romanian: conductivitate (ro) f

See also

• permeability