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conductance en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From conduct + -ance. Coined by electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist Oliver Heaviside in 1885.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A measure of the ability of a body to conduct electricity; the reciprocal of its resistance.

Forms

Deriveds

photoconductance · semiconductance · microconductance · transconductance · electrical conductance · heat conductance · magnetoconductance · subconductance · thermal conductance · thermoconductance

Relateds

admittance · conductivity · siemens · susceptance

Translations (13)

sh vodljivost (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · sh konduktancija (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · el αγωγιμότητα (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · ru проводимость (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · fi konduktanssi (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · de elektrischer Leitwert (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · ru электропроводность (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · fr conductance (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · ko 컨덕턴스 (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · kk электрөткізгіштік (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · ja コンダクタンス (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · fi sähkönjohtavuus (measure of the ability to conduct electricity) · ro conductanță (measure of the ability to conduct electricity)