conduit

See also: conduït

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) cundite

Etymology

From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. Doublet of conduct.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnd(j)ʊɪt/, /ˈkɒndʒʊɪt/, /ˈkɒndɪt/, (obsolete) /ˈkʌndɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnd(j)ʊɪt/, /ˈkɑndɪt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

conduit (plural conduits)

1. A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
   1. A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.

      Coordinate terms: sluice, canal, aquaduct, viaduct

      This channel is a conduit to send the excess water back to the millpond.

   3. A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled: electrical conduit.

      Hypernyms: raceway < pathway, covering

      Hyponym: see at Wikipedia > electrical conduit § Types

      Last week the electricians were running conduit, and this week they'll be pulling cable.

   4. (cellular automata) Any pattern, typically composed of still lifes or oscillators, used to transfer an active region to another location without being destroyed or permanently modified in the process.
   5. (figurative) A means by which something is transmitted.

      The medium considered herself a conduit for messages from the spirit world.

      • 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

        Francis, by contrast, was at pains to listen and act, going so far in 2023 as to call a curiously named synod on synodality in his anxiety to make the process work better as a conduit between the centre and the outposts of his global church.

   6. (finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off–balance sheet bank assets.

Derived terms

• anticonduit
• conduit bender
• conduitlike
• microconduit

Translations

pipe or channel for conveying water

• Bulgarian: тръба (bg) f (trǎba), тръбопровод (bg) m (trǎboprovod)
• Catalan: conducte (ca) m
• Dutch: buis (nl), leiding (nl)
• Finnish: vesijohto (fi), johto (fi)
• German: Kanal (de) m, Leitung (de) f, Leitungsrohr n, Rohr (de) n, Rohrleitung (de) f, Wasserleitung (de) f, Wasserrohr (de) n, Leitungsrohr n, Aquädukt (de) n, Gerinne (de) n, Röhre (de) f, Leitung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὀχετός m (okhetós)

• Hungarian: vízvezeték (hu), vezeték (hu), cső (hu), csővezeték (hu), csatorna (hu)
• Italian: condotto (it) m
• Latin: canālis (la) m
• Polish: rura (pl) f, kanał (pl) m
• Russian: водово́д (ru) (vodovód)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòl-phìob f
• Spanish: conducto (es) m
• Swedish: vattenledningsrör
• Turkish: boru hattı (tr), kanal (tr), su borusu (tr), su hattı (tr)

duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled

• Dutch: pijp (nl)
• Finnish: asennusputki (tube), kaapelikanava (fi) (duct), roilo (fi) (groove)
• German: Isolierrohr n, Kabelkanal (de) m, Leerrohr n, Leitkanal m, Leitungsrohr n, Leitungsröhre f, Führungsrohr n, Führungskanal m, Installationsrohr n, Installationskanal m, Elektroinstallationsrohr n, Leitungskanal m, Wellschlauch m, Wellrohr n, Panzerrohr n, Kabelrohr n
• Hungarian: kábelcső, védőcső, vezetékcsatorna, kábelcsatorna (hu), (flexible) gégecső (hu)
• Italian: condotto (it) m
• Polish: rurka kablowa f, kanał kablowy m
• Portuguese: conduíte (pt)
• Russian: кабель-канал (ru) (kabelʹ-kanal)
• Swedish: ledning (sv)
• Turkish: elektrik borusu, elektrik tesisat borusu, kablo kanalı

A means by which something is transmitted

• Dutch: kanaal (nl)
• French: canal (fr) m
• German: Führung (de) f, Übertragungsweg (de) m, Leitkanal m, Verbindungslinie f, Verbindung (de) f
• Polish: kanał (pl) m
• Russian: проводни́к (ru) (provodník)
• Swedish: kanal (sv)
• Turkish: bağlantı (tr), bağlantı hattı

Anagrams

• duction, noctuid

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French conduit (noun, past participle) from Latin conductus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dɥi/

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• Rhymes: -ɥi

Noun

conduit m (plural conduits)

1. conduit (connecting pipe/channel)
2. a conductus

Participle

conduit (feminine conduite, masculine plural conduits, feminine plural conduites)

1. past participle of conduire

Verb

conduit

1. third-person singular present indicative of conduire

Further reading

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

Occitan

Adjective

conduit m (feminine singular conduita, masculine plural conduits, feminine plural conduitas)

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Noun

conduit m (plural conduits)

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Participle

conduit m (feminine conduita, masculine plural conduits, feminine plural conduitas)

1. past participle of conduire

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[4], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 187