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conduction

/kənˈdʌkʃən/

conduction noun: the conveying of heat or electricity through material.

Noun

conduction (countable and uncountable, plural conductions)

  1. 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...

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.

All 15 example sentences with conduction

Forms of conduction

pluralconductions

Origin of conduction

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

Words formed from conduction

Phrases with conduction

Words that rhyme with conduction

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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

  1. conducting
  2. conducting shelf
  3. conducting wire
  4. conducting wires
  5. conductins
  6. conduction
  7. conduction band
  8. conduction bands
  9. conduction time
  10. conduction times
  11. conductional

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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