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/kəndˈəkʃən/ Listen

noun

Conduction n.

The act of leading or guiding.

The act of training up. (Obs.)

(Physics) Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor; also, conductivity. "(The) communication (of heat) from one body to another when they are in contact, or through a homogenous body from particle to particle, constitutes conduction."

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... air of the exceptional in Amelia Lowrie's conduction of Linda to her room. She waited at the door while the other moved forward to the center of a chamber empty of all the luxury Linda had grown to demand. There was a bed with tall graceful posts supporting a canopy like a frosting ...

— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer

... possible for Leslie, by evaporation in a vacuum, to produce the greatest cold known; and so to extend our knowledge of thermology by showing that there is no zero within reach of our researches. When Fourier had determined the laws of conduction of heat, and when the Earth's temperature had been found to increase below the surface one degree in every forty yards, there were data for inferring the past condition of our globe; the vast period it has taken to cool down to its present state; and the immense age of ...

— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer

... actual or potential, of the earth must be decreasing. It should, of course, be observed that a great part of the thermal losses experienced by the earth is of an obvious character, and not dependent upon the slow processes of conduction. Each outburst of a volcano discharges a stupendous quantity of heat, which disappears very speedily from the earth; while in the hot springs found in so many places there is a perennial discharge of the same kind, which in the course of ...

— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball

... had been confined in evacuated bulbs and the low pressure facilitates evaporation, as is well known. It had long been known that an inert gas in the bulb would reduce the evaporation and remedy other defects; however, under these conditions, there would be a considerable loss of energy through conduction of heat by the gases. In the vacuum lamp nearly all the electrical energy is converted into radiant energy, which is emitted by the filament and any dissipation of heat is an energy loss. A high vacuum was one of ...

— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh

... the coffin brought into the room where I had prepared everything that was necessary in the conduction of my grand experiment; and then, when no one was there with me but my friend the executioner, I, with his help, the one of us taking the head and the other the feet, took the body from the coffin and laid it ...

— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest

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