conductivity

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English conduct

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

English -ive

English conductive

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂tsder.

Latin -itās

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English conductivity

From conductive + -ity.

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Noun

conductivity (countable and uncountable, plural conductivities)

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

• Albanian: përcjellshmëri (sq) f
• 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