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conductivity

  • noun

The ability of a material to conduct electricity, heat, fluid or sound

Other meanings

  1. The reciprocal of resistivity

Synonyms

  • conduction

Related words

  • electroconductivity
  • hyperconductivity
  • magnetoconductivity
  • nonconductivity
  • osseoconductivity
  • paraconductivity
  • photoconductivity
  • pyroconductivity
  • semiconductivity
  • superconductivity
  • thermoconductivity
  • heat conductivity

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This definition is adapted from “conductivity” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.