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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conduction" Quotes from Famous Books

... our earth the same reasoning which we should employ on a poker taken from the fire, or on a casting drawn from the foundry. Such bodies will lose their heat by radiation and conduction. The earth is therefore losing its heat. No doubt the process is an extremely slow one. The mighty reservoirs of internal heat are covered by vast layers of rock, which are such excellent non-conductors ...

— Time and Tide - A Romance of the Moon • Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

... geological history it consisted of a solidified crust at a high temperature, enfolding a globe of molten matter at a still higher temperature. As time went on, and the heat radiated into space from the surface of the globe, while at the same time slowly ascending from the interior by conduction, the crust necessarily contracted, and pressing more and more on the interior molten magma, this latter was forced from time to time to break through the contracting crust along zones of ...

— Volcanoes: Past and Present • Edward Hull

... transferred across any surface is usually expressed as a product, of which one factor is the slope or linear rate of change in temperature and the other is the amount of heat transferred per unit's difference in temperature in unit's length. In Fourier's analytical theory of the conduction of heat, this second factor is taken as a constant and is called the "conductivity" of the substance. Following this practice, the amount of heat absorbed by any surface from a hot gas is usually expressed as a product of the difference in temperature between the gas and ...

— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.

... and it probably also improves their internal condition so that they act more readily and more strongly. The growth, in the cortex, of dendrites and of the end-brushes of axons that interlace with the dendrites, must improve the synapses between one neurone and another, and thus make better conduction paths between one part of the cortex and another, and also between the cortex and the lower sensory and ...

— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth

... sometimes take blocks of ice presenting misty spaces in the otherwise continuous mass; and when we inquire into the cause of this mistiness, we find it to be due to myriads of small six-petalled flowers, into which the ice has been resolved by the mere heat of conduction. ...

— Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall

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