Part 2253

<blockquote>I can <b>conduct</b> you, lady, to a low But loyal cottage, where you may be safe. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; <as>as, to <ex>conduct</ex> the affairs of a kingdom</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Little skilled in the art of <b>conducting</b> a siege. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To behave; -- with the reflexive; <as>as, he <ex>conducted</ex> himself well</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.</def>

<h1>Conduct</h1> <Xpage=298>

<hw>Con*duct"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To conduct one's self; to behave.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Conductibility</h1> <Xpage=298>

<hw>Con*duct`i*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>conductibilit\'82</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Capability of being conducted; <as>as, the <ex>conductibility</ex> of heat or electricity</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.</def>

<h1>Conductible</h1> <Xpage=298>

<hw>Con*duct"i*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being conducted.</def>

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<h1>Conduction</h1> <Xpage=299>

<hw>Con*duc"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>conductio</ets> a bringing together: cf. F. <ets>conduction</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of leading or guiding.</def>

<i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of training up.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity.</def>

<blockquote> communication [of heat] from one body to another when they are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes <b>conduction</b>. <i>Amer. Cyc.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Conductive</h1> <Xpage=299>

<hw>Con*duct"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having the quality or power of conducting; <as>as, the <ex>conductive</ex> tissue of a pistil</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The ovarian walls . . . are seen to be distinctly <b>conductive</b>. <i>Goodale (Gray's Bot. ).</i></blockquote>

<h1>Conductivity</h1> <Xpage=299>

<hw>Con`duc*tiv"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, <as>as, the <ex>conductivity</ex> of a nerve</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Thermal conductivity</col> <fld>(Physics)</fld>, <cd>the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of<-- a--> plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces differ in temperature by one degree.</cd> <i>J. D. Everett.</i> -- <col>Thermometic conductivity</col> <fld>(Physics)</fld>, <cd>the thermal conductivity when the unit of heat employed is the heat required to raise <--a -->unit volume of the substance one degree.</cd></cs>