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1. n. The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the conductivity of a nerve.
2. n. the transmission of heat or electricity or sound
3. The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity (Physics), the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of 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 unit volume of the substance one degree.
4. The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving andtransmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity(Physics), the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unitarea of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite facesdiffer in temperature by one degree. J. D. Everett.-- Thermometic conductivity (Physics), the thermal conductivity whenthe unit of heat employed is the heat required to raise unit volumeof the substance one degree.
5. n:100 n the transmission of heat or electricity or sound