Hypertext Webster Gateway: "conductivity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Conductivity \Con`duc*tiv"i*ty\
(k[o^]n`d[u^]k*t[i^]v"[i^]*t[y^]), n.
The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and
transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the
conductivity of a nerve.
{Thermal 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
conductivity
n : the transmission of heat or electricity or sound [syn: {conduction}]
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