conduction
/kənˈdʌkʃən/
conduction noun: the conveying of heat or electricity through material.
Noun
conduction (countable and uncountable, plural conductions)
- The conveying of heat or electricity through material.
- 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)
- 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...
conduction meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Punjabi
conduction in Tamil
- கடத்தல், இகைப்பாற்றல், கடத்துதல், உகைத்தல், கடத்துகை, வெப்பக் கடத்தல்
conduction in Urdu
- کنڈکشن
conduction in Malayalam
- ചാലനം
conduction in Punjabi
- ਕੰਡਕਸ਼ਨ
More languagesFewer languages
- conduction in Malay
- konduksi
- conduction in Persian
- هدایت, رسانش
Examples of conduction in a sentence
- In the heart, β-receptor stimulation increases heart rate and cardiac contraction, and excitation conduction in atrioventricular node.
- Feedback latency from V2 depends on interareal conduction velocity and distance.
- Moreover, the position of the conduction band edge of the (Mo, Cd) monodoping impedes the photocatalytic efficiency.
Forms of conduction
| plural | conductions |
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Origin of conduction
Borrowed from Latin conductio, conductionem (“a bringing together”); equivalent to conduct + -ion.
Words formed from conduction
- aberrant conduction
- 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
Phrases with conduction
Words that rhyme with conduction
- induction
- reduction
- construction
- instruction
- deduction
- suction
- transduction
- introduction
- traduction
- destruction
- eduction
- fluxion
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Questions about conduction
- What does conduction mean?
- Conduction means the conveying of heat or electricity through material.
- What is conduction in Tamil?
- Conduction in Tamil is கடத்தல், இகைப்பாற்றல், கடத்துதல். See Conduction meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is conduction?
- Conduction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce conduction?
- Conduction is pronounced /kənˈdʌkʃən/.
- What is the plural of conduction?
- The plural of conduction is conductions.
Words near conduction in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: conduction (page history and authors); conduction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conduction (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); conduction (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conduction (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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