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Definition of 'conductor'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) conductor
a person who conducts; a leader, guide, director, or manager.

2.  conductor
an employee on a bus, train, or other public conveyance who is in charge of the conveyance and its passengers, collects fares or tickets, etc.

3.  conductor
a person who directs an orchestra, band, or chorus, esp. by motions of a baton or the hands.

4.  conductor
a substance, body, or device that readily conducts heat, electricity, sound, etc.

Etymology: (1525–50; < L)

Definition of 'conductor'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) conductor, music director, director
the person who leads a musical group

2. (noun) conductor
a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat

3. (noun) conductor
the person who collects fares on a public conveyance

4. (noun) conductor
a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.

Definition of 'conductor'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) conductor
a person who leads an orchestra, band, or singers
***the orchestra's conductor

2. conductor
a person in charge of a train
***The conductor took our tickets.

Definition of 'conductor'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) conductor
one who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director

2. (noun) conductor
one in charge of a public conveyance, as of a railroad train or a street car

3. (noun) conductor
the leader or director of an orchestra or chorus

4. (noun) conductor
a substance or body capable of being a medium for the transmission of certain forces, esp. heat or electricity; specifically, a lightning rod

5. (noun) conductor
a grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director

6. (noun) conductor
same as Leader

Definition of 'conductor'

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. conductor
In electricity, anything that permits the passage of an electric current. Any disturbance in the ether takes the form of waves because the ether has restitutive force or elasticity. In a conductor, on the other hand, this force is wanting; it opens a path through the ether and a disturbance advances through it from end to end with a wave front, but with no succession of waves. This advance is the beginning of what is termed a current. It is, by some theorists, attributed to impulses given at all points along the conductor through the surrounding ether, so that a current is not merely due to an end thrust. If ether waves preclude a current on account of their restitutive force, ether waves cannot be maintained in a conductor, hence conductors should be opaque to light, for the latter is due to ether waves. This is one of the more practical every day facts brought out in Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The term conductor is a relative one, as except a vacuum there is probably no substance that has not some conducting power. For relative conducting power, tables of conductivity, q. v., should be consulted. The metals beginning with silver are the best conductors, glass is one of the worst.

[Transcriber's note: See "ether" for contemporary comments on this now discarded concept.]

Translation of 'conductor'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a thing that conducts heat or electricity Copper is a good conductor of heat.
Afrikaans: geleider, geleidraad	Arabic: موصِل للحَرارَه	Bulgarian: проводник
Brazilian: condutor	Czech: vodič	German: der Leiter
Danish: leder	Greek: αγωγός	Spanish: conductor
Estonian: juht	Farsi: رسانا	Finnish: johdin
French: conducteur	Hebrew: מוֹלִיך	Hindi: ताप अथवा विद्युत चालक
Croatian: vodič	Hungarian: vezető	Indonesian: penghantar
Icelandic: leiðari	Italian: conduttore	Japanese: 伝導体
Korean: 도체	Lithuanian: laidininkas	Latvian: vadītājs
Malay: konduktor	Dutch: geleider	Norwegian: varmeleder
Polish: przewodnik	Persian: رسانا	Pashto: رسوونكى له مس چې بريښنا ر
Portuguese: condutor	Romanian: conductor	Russian: проводник
Slovak: vodič	Slovenian: prevodnik	Serbian: provodnik
Swedish: ledare, konduktor	Thai: ตัวนำไฟฟ้า	Turkish: iletken (madde)
Taiwanese: 熱導管，電導體	Ukrainian: провідник	Urdu: موصل
Vietnamese: chất dẫn (nhiệt, điện)	Chinese: 导体
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