conductive
pronunciation
How to pronounce conductive in British English:
UK [kənˈdʌktɪv]
How to pronounce conductive in American English:
US [kənˈdʌktɪv]
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- Adjective:
- having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity
Word Origin
- conductive (adj.)
- 1520s, from conduct + -ive. Physics sense is from 1840. Related: Conductivity (1837).
Example
- 1. Controlling conductive heat might have equally unforeseen consequences .
- 2. One big difference is that inductive chargers don 't require metal-on-metal connections to charge a device like conductive chargers do .
- 3. The qi standard involves a technology called inductive charging , while other companies , like pureenergy solutions , use a conductive charging technology .
- 4. To build their macro-sized quantum processors , the yale researchers evaporated aluminum onto a sapphire surface to create two conductive spots a third of a millimeter across .
- 5. And the result of the shuffling is to create or destroy a conductive pathway between two crucial bits of the transistor , the source and the drain , thus switching the device on or off .