Definition of Conductive

1. Adjective. Having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity.

Similar to: Semiconducting, Semiconductive
Derivative terms: Conduct, Conductivity
Antonyms: Nonconductive

Definition of Conductive

1. a. Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil.

Definition of Conductive

1. Adjective. Able to conduct electrical current or heat ¹

2. Adjective. of, or relating to conductivity of a material ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conductive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conductive

conducting
conducting airway
conducting system of heart
conducting wire
conduction
conduction anaesthesia
conduction analgesia
conduction anesthesia
conduction aphasia
conduction band
conduction bands
conduction block
conduction deafness
conductions
conductitious
conductive (current term)
conductive deafness
conductive hearing loss
conductive heat
conductive pen
conductively
conductivities
conductivity
conductometer
conductometric
conductometry
conductor
conductorial
conductorless
conductorly

Literary usage of Conductive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"Besides specialized elements, conductive areas contain many parenchymatous cells that remain un- differentiated except for elongation; such cells make up ..."

2. A Complete Treatise on the Electro-deposition of Metals: Comprising Electro by Georg Langbein (1898)
"The moulds thus coated with varnish or saturated with wax are now made conductive with black-lead, the operation being the same as that mentioned on p. 372. ..."

3. The Art of anaesthesia by Paluel Joseph Flagg (1922)
"THE ADMINISTRATION OF conductive OR REGION AI, ANAESTHESIA. — conductive anaesthesia implies a precise knowledge of the distribution of the nerves supplying ..."

4. The Electrical Engineer (1890)
"The first part of the book deals with circuits—viz., the conductive circuit, the inductive circuit, und the magnetic circuit. Probably this division is in ..."

5. A Manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography by William Benham Snow (1903)
"conductive DISCHARGES. STRICTLY speaking, all static discharges are currents, passing to and fro through the dielectric, or other media, as the chain or ..."

6. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"These probably largely referable to the intercalation of synaptic membranes in the conductive mechanism of the arc. ..."

7. Electricity and Magnetism by Eric Mary Gerard, R. C. Duncan, Louis Duncan (1897)
"conductive Discharge. Electric Current.—The contrary electricities which charge the coatings are made to recombine directly, if they are joined together by ..."

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