Conductance

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A measure of a material's ability to conduct electric charge; the reciprocal of the resistance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A measure of the ability of a body to conduct electricity; the reciprocal of its resistance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Conducting power; -- the reciprocal of resistance. A suggested unit is the mho, the reciprocal of the ohm.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In electricity: the conducting power of a given mass of specified material of specified shape and connections.
  • n. in alternating-current circuits, the energy component of admittance, defined as the ratio of the energy current divided by the electromotive force. See admittance. 6.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance
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