English Dictionary: conductivity | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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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. |