conduction
noun/kənˈdʌkʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin conductio, conductionem (“a bringing together”); equivalent to conduct + -ion.
1
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The conveying of heat or electricity through material.
2
The act of leading or guiding.
- Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, who aſſiſted the Israelites in their conduction through the Wildernes of Pharan.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):
3
Obsolete The act of training up.
- every man has his beginning and conductionc. 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):
- Derived terms
- aberrant conduction, A-H conduction time, a-h conduction time, chondroconduction, conductional, conduction band, conduction time, electroconduction, HV conduction time, intra-atrial conduction time, macroconduction, microconduction, nonconduction, osteoconduction, P-A conduction time, P-H conduction time, photoconduction, radioconduction, semiconduction, sinoatrial conduction time, superconduction, surface-conduction electron-emitter display
- Related terms
- conduct, conductivity, conductor