conductibility love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Capability of being conducted or transmitted: as, the conductibilily of electricity or of heat.
  • noun Improperly, capacity for conducting or transmitting; conductivity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Capability of being conducted.
  • noun Conductivity; capacity for receiving and transmitting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The ability to conduct

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Examples

  • He subsequently experimented, in a similar way, with other metals, and finally adopted Senarmont's method for the study of conductibility.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various

  • The phenomenon that best lent itself to measurement was the conductibility produced in the air by uranium rays.

    Pierre Curie 1923

  • Investigations on the conductibility provoked in dielectric liquids by the rays of radium and the Roentgen rays.

    Pierre Curie 1923

  • Here is another experiment for the purpose of showing the conductibility of this power through some bodies and not through others.

    The Forces of Matter, Delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution of Great Britain during the Christmas Holidays of 1859-60 1909

  • The difference evidently depends on the conductibility of certain rocks.

    Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866

  • This apparently astounding acoustic mystery is easily explainable by simple natural laws; it arose from the conductibility of the rock.

    Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866

  • Others, by the aid of observations no less certain, proved that heat, applied at the extremity of a bar, is transmitted to the extreme parts with greater or less velocity or intensity, according to the nature of the substance of which the bar is composed; thus they suggested the original idea of conductibility.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

  • These effects are, however, dependent on three variable circumstances; the energy of the electromotive apparatus, the conductibility of the medium, and the irritability of the organs which receive the impressions: it is because experiments have not been sufficiently multiplied with a view to these three variable elements, that, in the action of electric eels and torpedos, accidental circumstances have been taken for absolute conditions, without which the electric shocks are not felt.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • The greatness of the mass, and the small conductibility of water for heat, prevent a more speedy refrigeration.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • These effects are, however, dependent on three variable circumstances; the energy of the electromotive apparatus, the conductibility of the medium, and the irritability of the organs which receive the impressions: it is because experiments have not been sufficiently multiplied with a view to these three variable elements, that, in the action of electric eels and torpedos, accidental circumstances have been taken for absolute conditions, without which the electric shocks are not felt.

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

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