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English Dictionary: conductivity by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
conductivity
n
  1. the transmission of heat or electricity or sound [syn: conduction, conductivity]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Conductivity \Con`duc*tiv"i*ty\
      (k[ocr]n`d[ucr]k*t[icr]v"[icr]*t[ycr]), n.
      The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and
      transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the
      conductivity of a nerve.
  
      {Thermal conductivity} (Physics), the quantity of heat that
            passes in unit time through unit area of a plate whose
            thickness is unity, when its opposite faces differ in
            temperature by one degree.
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