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Webster 1913 Edition
Conductivity
Conˊduc-tiv′i-ty
(kŏnˊdŭk-tĭv′ĭ-ty̆)
, Noun.
The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.;
as, the
. conductivity
of a nerveThermal conductivity
(Physics)
, the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of a plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces differ in temperature by one degree.
J. D. Everett.
– Thermometic conductivity
(Physics)
, the thermal conductivity when the unit of heat employed is the heat required to raise a unit volume of the substance one degree.