conductivity

English

Etymology

From conductive +‎ -ity.

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Noun

conductivity (countable and uncountable, plural conductivities)

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conductivity

Wikipedia

1. The ability of a material to conduct electricity, heat, fluid or sound
2. (physics) The reciprocal of resistivity

Derived terms

• electroconductivity
• heat conductivity
• hydraulic conductivity
• hyperconductivity
• magnetoconductivity
• nonconductivity
• osseoconductivity
• paraconductivity
• photoconductivity
• pyroconductivity
• semiconductivity
• superconductivity
• thermal conductivity
• thermoconductivity

Related terms

• conductance

Translations

ability to conduct

Bulgarian: проводимост (bg) f (provodimost), електропроводност f (elektroprovodnost) Catalan: conductivitat f Chinese: Mandarin: 傳導率 / 传导率 (chuándǎo lǜ) Dutch: geleiding (nl) f Finnish: johtavuus (fi) French: conductivité (fr) f German: Leitfähigkeit (de) f Greek: αγωγιμότητα (el) f (agogimótita) Hebrew: מוליכות f (molikhut) Hindi: चालकता f (cālaktā) Icelandic: leiðni f Indonesian: daya hantar (id), konduktivitas (id) Irish: seoltacht f, inchonduchtacht f Italian: conduttività (it) f Japanese: 伝導性 (でんどうせい, dendōsei) Korean: 전도성 (jeondoseong) Macedonian: спроводливост f (sprovodlivost) Malay: kekonduksian (ms) Manx: yn-chondughtaght f Norwegian: Bokmål: ledningsevne m or f Persian: رسانایی (fa) Polish: konduktywność f, przewodność f Portuguese: condutividade (pt) f Romanian: conductivitate (ro) f Russian: проводи́мость (ru) f (provodímostʹ), электропрово́дность (ru) f (elektroprovódnostʹ) (electroconductivity), электропроводи́мость (ru) f (elektroprovodímostʹ) (electroconductivity) Spanish: conductividad f Swedish: konduktivitet (sv), ledningsförmåga (sv)

reciprocal of resistivity

Finnish: johtavuus (fi) French: conductivité (fr) f Greek: αγωγιμότητα (el) f (agogimótita) Irish: seoltacht f Romanian: conductivitate (ro) f Russian: удельная электропроводность f (udelʹnaja elektroprovodnostʹ), удельная проводимость f (udelʹnaja provodimostʹ)

See also

• permeability