conductance

English

Etymology

Morphologically conduct +‎ -ance.

Noun

conductance (countable and uncountable, plural conductances)

1. (physics) A measure of the ability of a body to conduct electricity; the reciprocal of its resistance.

Derived terms

• electrical conductance
• heat conductance
• magnetoconductance
• microconductance
• photoconductance
• semiconductance
• subconductance
• thermal conductance
• thermoconductance
• transconductance

 

Related terms

• conductivity

Translations

measure of the ability to conduct electricity

• Finnish: konduktanssi (fi), sähkönjohtavuus (fi)
• French: conductance (fr) f
• German: elektrischer Leitwert m
• Greek: αγωγιμότητα (el) f (agogimótita)
• Japanese: コンダクタンス (kondakutansu)
• Kazakh: электрөткізгіштік (élektrötkızgıştık)
• Korean: 컨덕턴스 (keondeokteonseu)
• Romanian: conductanță (ro) f
• Russian: электропроводность (ru) f (elektroprovodnostʹ), проводимость (ru) f (provodimostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: konduktancija (sh) f, vodljivost (sh) f

See also

• siemens (SI unit of conductance)
• admittance
• susceptance

Further reading

• Electrical resistance and conductance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

conductance f (plural conductances)

1. conductance