Other Definitions conductor (enc)
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Conductor| Noun | 1. | conductor - the person who leads a musical groupdrum major - the leader of a marching band or drum corps musician - artist who composes or conducts music as a profession Hindemith, Paul Hindemith - German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963) | | | 2. | conductor - a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.busbar, bus - an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits; "the busbar in this computer can transmit data either way between any two components of the system" device - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" electrode - a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit heat sink - a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat lightning conductor, lightning rod - a metallic conductor that is attached to a high point and leads to the ground; protects the building from destruction by lightning electrical shunt, shunt, bypass - a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current wave guide, waveguide - a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves; used in radar | | | 3. | conductor - a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heatmaterial, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" atomic number 29, copper, Cu - a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor Ag, atomic number 47, silver - a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography semiconducting material, semiconductor - a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities | | | 4. | conductor - the person who collects fares on a public conveyance | |
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