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The quality of conducing.

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war. Paley. The conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs. Ld. Brougham.

Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm.

Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity.

Capable of being conducted.

Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity. [The] communication [of heat] from one body to another when they are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes conduction. Amer. Cyc.

Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil. The ovarian walls . . . are seen to be distinctly conductive. Goodale (Gray's Bot. ).

The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity (Physics), the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces differ in temperature by one degree. J. D. Everett. -- Thermo…

One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden.

Having the property of conducting. [R.]

A woman who leads or directs; a directress.

A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid. All the conduits of my blood froze up. Shak. This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

ilways, in which the actuating current passes along a wire or rail laid in an underground conduit, from which the current is "picked up" by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive. Hence Conduit railway.

Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.

A doubling together or folding; a duplication. [R.]

See Cundurango.

A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

Of or pertaining to a condyle. Condylar foramen (Anat.), a formen in front of each condyle of the occipital bone; -- sometimes called the anterior condylar foramen when a second, or posterior, foramen is present behind the condyle, as often happens in man.

at the end of a bone bearing a rounded articular surface; -- sometimes applied also to a concave articular surface.

Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.