Conductive
[kən'dʌktɪv]
Definition
(adj.) having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity .
Checker: Noelle--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil.
Typist: Sean
Examples
- In 1840 Murray used plumbago to make non-conducting surfaces conductive for electro-plating. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Gray in 1729 discovered the conductive power of certain substances, and that the electrical influence could be conveyed to a distance by means of an insulated wire. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Sean