Definition of conductor

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Conductor (n.) One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car..

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Bridge :: Bridge (n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
Anubis :: Anubis (n.) An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox..
Electro-polar :: Electro-polar (a.) Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor..
Volt :: Volt (n.) The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard Clark's cell at a temperature of 15? C..
Paragrele :: Paragrele (n.) A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms..
Conduct :: Conduct (v. i.) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry..
Insulate :: Insulate (v. t.) To prevent the transfer o/ electricity or heat to or from (bodies) by the interposition of nonconductors.
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook..
Short-circuit :: Short-circuit (v. t.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance..
Trolly :: Trolly (n.) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car..
Conductor :: Conductor (n.) One in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car..
Resistance :: Resistance (n.) A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm..
Leader :: Leader (n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
Conduction :: Conduction (n.) Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity..
Connector :: Connector (n.) A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
Baton :: Baton (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances..
Spout :: Spout (v. t.) That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building..
Escape :: Escape (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors..
Aqueduct :: Aqueduct (n.) A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water..
Insulation :: Insulation (n.) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity or of heat; also, the state of a body so separated..
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