Conductivity /(kŏn`dŭk*tĭv"ĭ*ty̆)/
Con·duc·tiv·i·ty
Conductivity
n.
- The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as heat, electricity, etc.; as, the conductivity of a nerve.
Phrases & Compounds
- Thermal conductivity
- 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.
- Thermometic conductivity
- the thermal conductivity when the unit of heat employed is the heat required to raise a unit volume of the substance one degree.