Webster's Dictionary 1913

6535

Conducive

Con‐du″cive (kŏn‐dū″sĭv), a. Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote.However conducive to the good or our country.Addison.

6536

Conduciveness

Con‐du″cive‐ness, n. The quality of conducing.

6537

Conduct

Con″duct (kŏn″dŭkt), n. [LL. conductus defense, escort, fr. L. conductus, p. p. of conducere. See Conduce, and cf. Conduit.] 1. The act or method of conducting; guidance; manage...

6538

Conduct (2)

Con‐duct″ (kŏn‐dŭkt″), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Conducted; p. pr. & vb. n.Conducting.] [See Conduct, n.] 1. To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.I can conduct you, lady, to a lowBu...

6539

Conduct (3)

Con‐duct″, v. i. 1. To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.2. To conduct one's self; to behave.

6540

Conductance

Con‐duct″ance (kŏn‐dŭk″tans), n. [Conduct, v. + -ance.] (Elec.) Conducting power; — the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm.Conducta...

6541

Conductibility

Con‐duct′i‐bil″i‐ty (kŏn‐dŭk′tĭ‐bĭl″ĭ‐ty̆), n. [Cf. F. conductibilité.] 1. Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity.2. Conductivity; capacity...

6542

Conductible

Con‐duct″i‐ble (–b'l), a. Capable of being conducted.

6543

Conduction

Con‐duc″tion (kŏn‐dŭk″shŭn), n. [L. conductio a bringing together: cf. F. conduction.] 1. The act of leading or guiding. Sir W. Raleigh.2. The act of training up. B. Jonson.3. (...

6544

Conductive

Con‐duct″ive (–dŭk″tĭv), a. Having the quality or power of conducting; as, the conductive tissue of a pistil.The ovarian walls... are seen to be distinctly conductive.Goodale (G...

6545

Conductivity

Con′duc‐tiv″i‐ty (kŏn′dŭk‐tĭv″ĭ‐ty̆), n. The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the conductivity of a nerve.Therma...

6546

Conductor

Con‐duct″or (kŏn‐dŭk″tẽr), n. 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.Dryden.2. One in c...

6547

Conductory

Con‐duct″o‐ry (?), a. [LL. conductorius.] Having the property of conducting.

6548

Conductress

Con‐duct″ress (?), n. A woman who leads or directs; a directress.

6549

Conduit

Con″duit (? or?; 277), n. [F., fr. LL. conductus escort, conduit. See Conduct.] 1. A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.All the conduits of my blood f...

6550

Conduit system

Con″duit sys″tem. (Elec.) A system of electric traction, esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current passes along a wire or rail laid in an underground conduit, from...

6551

Conduplicate

Con‐du″pli‐cate (?), a. [L. conduplicatus, p. p. of conduplicare. See Duplicate.] (Bot.) Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; — said of leaves or pet...

6552

Conduplication

Con‐du′pli‐ca″tion (?), n. [L. conduplicatio.] A doubling together or folding; a duplication.

6553

Condurango

Con′du‐ran″go (?), n.(Med.) See Cundurango.

6554

Condurrite

Con‐dur″rite (?), n.(Min.) A variety of the mineral domeykite, or copper arsenide, from the Condurra mine in Cornwall, England.

6555

Condylar

Con″dy‐lar (?), a.(Anat.) Of or pertaining to a condyle.Condylar foramen(Anat.), a formen in front of each condyle of the occipital bone; — sometimes called the anterior condyla...

6556

Condyle

Con″dyle (? or?), n. [L. condylus knuckle, joint, Gr. κόνδυλοσ: cf. F. condyle.] (Anat.) A bony prominence; particularly, an eminence at the end of a bone bearing a rounded arti...

6557

Condyloid

Con″dy‐loid (?), a. [Condyle + -oid: cf. F. condyloïde.] (Anat.) Shaped like or pertaining to a condyle.

6558

Condyloma

{ ‖Con′dy‐lo″ma (–lō″mȧ), ‖Con″dy‐lome (–lōm) }, n.; pl.Condylomata (#) or (#), E. Condylomes (–lōmz). [NL. condyloma, fr. Gr. �, from κόνδυλοσ knuckle. See -oma.] (Med.) A wart...

6559

Condylopod

‖Con‐dyl″o‐pod (?), n. [Gr. κόνδυλοσ knuckle (or joint) + -pod.] (Zoöl.) An arthropod.

6560

Cone

‖Cone (?), n. [L. conus cone (in sense 1), Gr. �; akin to Skr. çana whetstone, L. cuneus wedge, and prob. to E. hone. See Hone, n.] 1. (Geom.) A solid of the form described by t...

6561

Cone (2)

Cone (?), v. t. To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.