Conductivity
[kɒndʌk'tɪvɪtɪ] or [,kɑndʌk'tɪvəti]
Definition
(n.) The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the conductivity of a nerve.
Editor: Randolph
Examples
- In like manner a heavy rain-storm cleaned the tracks from the accumulations due chiefly to the droppings of the horses, which otherwise served largely to increase the conductivity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Among the complex and numerous problems that presented themselves in the evolution of the battery was the one concerning the internal conductivity of the positive unit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was this expert and this company who pioneered high-conductivity copper for the electrical trade. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This insures complete and perfect contact and consequent electrical conductivity throughout the entire unit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For instance, at the time when he was making strenuous endeavors to obtain copper wire of high conductivity, strict laboratory tests were made of samples sent by manufacturers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Copper for the circuits was more highly refined than ever before to secure the best conductivity, and purity was insisted on in every kind of insulation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These expedients simply made available the superior conductivity of the solid body over the air to transmit sound waves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- All these conductors are of copper, that metal when pure having seven times the conductivity of iron. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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