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US
/kənˈdəktɝ/
]
[ UK /kəndˈʌktɐ/ ]
[ UK /kəndˈʌktɐ/ ]
NOUN
- the person who leads a musical group
- the person who collects fares on a public conveyance
- a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.
- a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat
How To Use conductor In A Sentence
- It makes data generators, multimeters and oscilloscopes, as well as semiconductors, optoelectronic components and RF chip sets - all very complex products that require a great deal of customization for individual customers.
- He was, when he chose to lay aside his mountebankery, an excellent and inspiring conductor. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
- His careers adviser suggested he might make a good bus conductor. Times, Sunday Times
- A non-conductor can be charged by induction by exposure to an electrostatic field that is present on a surface charged with static electricity.
- A dynamo converts mechanical energy from a moving electrical conductor into electromagnetic energy and thus generates current.
- The conductor worked hard for a first-class result, the cohesiveness of the entire composition leaving a most satisfying afterglow.
- Unemployment rates for railroad conductors, logging workers and metalworkers fell sharply — seven percentage points or more — in 2010 while jobless rates among construction laborers and roofers rose, according to new data from the Labor Department. Manufacturing, Logistics See Job Gains
- Metal is a good conductor of heat.
- A paper-thin semiconductor device, the solar cell has no moving parts.
- These superconductors usually contain more oxygen atoms than predicted by valence theory.