condulet

English

An assortment of condulets

Etymology

Alteration of conduit + -let. Registered trademark by the Crouse-Hinds Company in 1906.

Noun

condulet (plural condulets)

1. A conduit fitting with a removable lid to allow access to the wires within.

   She installed an L-shaped condulet when the conduit reached the ceiling to redirect the wires towards the far corner of the garage.

   • 1930, F. S. Brackett with E. D. McAlister, “The Automatic Recording of the Infrared at High Resolution”, in Review of Scientific Instruments, volume 1, →DOI, page 193:

     The leads to the galvanometer are covered with a metal condulet and the galvanometer itself completely surrounded by an insulating box except for a small window.

Anagrams

• uncolted