Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A measure of a material's ability to conduct electric charge; the reciprocal of the resistance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In electricity: the conducting power of a given mass of specified material of specified shape and connections.
- n. in alternating-current circuits, the energy component of admittance, defined as the ratio of the energy current divided by the electromotive force. See admittance. 6.
Wiktionary
- n. physics A measure of the ability of a body to conduct electricity; the reciprocal of its resistance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Elec.) Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of
resistance . A suggested unit is themho , the reciprocal of the ohm.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance
Examples
“A lead attached to her finger measures "skin conductance," the amount of perspiration on the skin, another physiological sign of stress.”
“In this case the pre-recorded data were of things like the spontaneous fluctuations of human skin conductance and heart rate and gerbil's use of an exercise wheel.”
“Healing Rhythms comes with the Iom biofeedback unit, which measures your skin conductance and heart rate variability.”
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“Their skin conductance patterns spike, the hairs on their arms rise, their pulse quickens, and their breathing becomes shallow.”
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“When electrodermal wires are placed on people's arms and fingertips to study their skin conductance patterns and the subjects then hear a few obscenities spoken clearly and firmly, participants show signs of instant arousal.”
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“These measure skin conductance, which is known to rise during stress or discomfort.”
“The permeability to current of a conductor is called conductance”
“I/U is the conductance of the load; the total conductance or equivalent conductance, which is to be designated Gequ, is written as”
“The new style testers electronically measure a battery's "conductance", or its ability to deliver its rated amp output.”
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