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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.

A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence 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.

A wartlike new growth on the outer skin or adjoining mucous membrance.

An arthropod.

To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray.

Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [R.] Phillips.

One who absconds.

Being without joints; jointless.

s a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.